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"My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it."
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"Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. Men made dogs, they took wolves and gave them human things--unnecessary intelligence, names, a desire to belong, and a twitching inferiority complex. All dogs dream wolf dreams, and know they're dreaming of biting their Maker. Every dog knows, deep in his heart, that he is a Bad Dog..."
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"I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished."
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"I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them."
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"Years later, after other experiences with dogs, I wondered if their species were shaped and charmed to serve as four-legged guides able to assist in leading humanity back to our first-and lost-home. By the example of their joy and humility, by wanting nothing more than food and play and love, by the deep satisfaction that they take from those humble things, they belie all creeds of power and fame. Although they have the teeth to tear, it is by swish of tail and yearning eyes that they most easily get what they want."
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"As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs."
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"The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own."
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"I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it's horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it."
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"This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience."
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"Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy."
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"My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants."
Father
"I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings."
Want
"The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry."
Argument
"My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey."
Father
"Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion."
Now
"There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented."
Media
"Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left."
Wildlife
"Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare."
Public
"I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us."
Animals
"Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues."
Jokes
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