1,641 Quotes About Animal

Eventually, humans invented agriculture, which could be understood as a way of turning the natural world into a tool for our use. There's evidence that we have been domesticating crops and animals for at least 15,000 years, adapting ecosystems to our preferred way of life.

Humans are a great survivor species but our survival will be pretty grim if all of the plants and animals we depend on die out. That's why any human survival strategy has to include a plan to maintain our environment roughly in the state that it's in now.

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

The rate of animal feed growth has just been incredible down here. The Brazilians are every bit as sophisticated as a U.S. producer, and in some ways, even more sophisticated.

The most venomous animal that lives in the ocean is the box jellyfish. And every one of those barbs is sending that venom into this central nervous system. So first I feel like boiling hot oil I've been dipped in. And I'm yelling out, 'Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Help me! Somebody help me!' And the next thing is paralysis.

Without BDNF in the circuit, an animal can't learn that a social stimulus is threatening and respond appropriately.

The social-defeat process induced production of BDNF in the reward circuit. Without BDNF in the circuit, an animal can't learn that a social stimulus is threatening and respond accordingly.

Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.

Cows are gentle, interesting animals.