Diane Ackerman Quotes About Animals

• We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.

  Diane Ackerman

  Animal, Evolution, Plant

• It's animal by animal that you save a species.

  Diane Ackerman

  Animal, Animal Rights, Species

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds”, p.19, Vintage

• I like handling newborn animals. Fallen into life from an unmappable world, they are the ultimate immigrants, full of wonder and confusion.

  Diane Ackerman

  Animal, Confusion, World

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.184, Vintage

• One of the things I like best about animals in the wild is that they're always off on some errand. They have appointments to keep. It's only we humans who wonder what we're here for.

  Diane Ackerman

  Animal, Errands, Wonder

• Para bien o para mal, la mayoría de la gente conoce los animales grandes o exóticos en los zoológicos. Pocos verán alguna vez pingüinos salvajes descendiendo en trineo hacia el mar sobre sus barrigas, pandas gigantes sosteniendo piruletas de bambú en China o puercoespines arborícolas en las Rocosas canadienses, hechos bolas como piñas gigantes.

  Diane Ackerman

  Zoos, Animal, Sea

• An animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part of his personality which is pure dog, that part of him which just wants to eat, sleep, bark, hump chairs, wet the floor in joy, and drink out of a toilet bowl.

  Diane Ackerman

  Perro, Sueño, Animal

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.329, Vintage

• Estamos perdiendo biodiversidad en todo el mundo a un ritmo alarmante, y necesitamos una cornucopia de plantas y animales diferentes, por la salud del planeta y la nuestra propia.

  Diane Ackerman

  Animal, Different, Needs

  Diane Ackerman (2014). “The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us”, p.92, W. W. Norton & Company

• We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning.

  Diane Ackerman

  Spiritual, Animal, May

• Qué especie tan solitaria somos, buscando señales de vida de otras galaxias, adoptando animales de compañía, visitando parques y zoológicos para comulgar con otras bestias. En el proceso, descubrimos nuestra identidad común.

  Diane Ackerman

  Lonely, Zoos, Animal

• Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food, you have to be unnervingly close to it. To smell or hear it, you can risk being further off. But vision can rush through the fields and up the mountains, travel across time, country, and parsecs of outer space, and collect bushel baskets of information as it goes. Animals that hear high frequencies better than we do

  Diane Ackerman

  Country, Eye, Animal

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