Quotes by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas - Page 1

The story of cats is a story of meat.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas / Author
Meat
Cats
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Dogs are a window on the natural world.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas / Author
Natural World
Window
Dogs
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I don't mind aging - I'm glad to be aging. I'll never die young.
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Aging
Glad
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To sit idly, not doing, merely experiencing, comes hard to a primate.
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Experiencing
Idly
Merely
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Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace.
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Boredom
Pure
Dogs
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I would like to visit a dog's mind to know what he's thinking and feeling.
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Visit
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Hundreds of species are facing extinction due to human impacts on the environment.
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Extinction
Species
Due
Facing
Hundreds
Impacts
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Many expressions of a cat's feelings seem deeply related to the capture of live prey.
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Capture
Cat
Prey
Related
Expressions
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Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them.
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Prey
Species
Escape
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In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas / Author
Cosmology
Deer
Exotic
Indigenous
Wild
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Veterinarians are essential allies to the millions of us who experience the human-animal bond.
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Allies
Bond
Essential
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When I was very young, my nanny was a big Newfoundland dog... whose task was to keep me from drowning.
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Drowning
Nanny
Task
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Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas / Author
Being Alone
Belonging
Thunder
Besides
Dogs
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People are perfectly glad to accept the idea that dogs love us, so they must be able to love each other.
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Glad
Dogs
Perfectly
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Dogs who chase cars evidently see them as large, unruly ungulates badly in need of discipline and shepherding.
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Funny
Car
Discipline
Dog
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You have to be able to love members of your own species before you can branch out and apply that to other species.
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Species
Branch
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Once you're known to be an alcoholic, that's how many people identify you, which could be a reason not to talk about it.
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How Many People
Identify
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Not even a maggot is an it, and to refer to any animal in that manner is an affectation, an ignorant stab at science-speak.
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Animal
Ignorant
Affectation
Manner
Refer
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If you don't have manufactured items or anything we think of as 'civilization,' then you're living according to your species.
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Items
Species
According
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With all due respect to the nation's fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas / Author
Deer
Fish
Feed
Due
Departments
Hunt
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Every dog might wish to be Dog One, but like us, most dogs want membership in the group even more than they want supremacy over others.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas / Author
Membership
Supremacy
Dogs
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The dogs and I are a single thing, and thus we share our interests. With them, I'm bigger and better than I am without them, and vice versa.
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Vice Versa
Better I Am Than
Dogs
Single Thing
Thus
Versa
Vice
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No other creatures of the savannah sleep as deeply or as soundly as lions, but after all, lions are the main reason for not sleeping soundly.
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Lions
Savannah
Main Reason
Sleeping
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This was what you did in the '50s: You get married, get a job, put your husband through graduate school, and have two kids - a girl and a boy.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas / Author
Graduate School
Get Married
Graduate
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People didn't think animals thought or remembered or had minds! They most certainly do: any pet owner knows more than a lot of scientists about animals.
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Pet
Remembered
Owner
Scientists
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Dogs like to learn stuff, if not from another dog, then people are OK... They love activity, playing, interesting walks, and just belonging, being together.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas / Author
Belonging
Walks
Love Together People
Dogs
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When we became sedentary, lived indoors, and started to raise livestock, we began to see wolves not as occasional fur-bearers or fellow hunters but as robbers.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas / Author
Hunters
Livestock
Occasional
Sedentary
Fellow
Indoors
Wolves
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The relationships we have with dogs seem simple enough and often are taken for granted. But these relationships can be deep and mysterious, and not at all simple.
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Granted
Mysterious
Taken For Granted
Dogs
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Cats and dogs are a very good window into the natural world: a chance to see how another species lives and deals with its problems, what they like and what they don't like.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas / Author
Deals
Natural World
Species
Window
Cats
Dogs
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People acquire a dog, don't understand it, can't train it, get fed up, and... offer it for adoption, hoping to pass on the problem to somebody else. But nobody wants a problem dog.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas / Author
Acquire
Adoption
Fed Up
Fed
Hoping
Offer
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We used to go in the woods by ourselves, and you can't help noticing the world then, especially animals. People used to know a lot about the natural world, especially in the country.
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Natural World
Noticing
Woods
World Country People
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We fill the woods with invasive primates camouflaged to look like piles of leaves who sneak around, sprinkling estrus doe urine and manipulating gadgets that sound like antlers clashing.
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Gadgets
Sneak
Woods
Fill
Leaves
Manipulating
Piles
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When I write about animals, I use anthropological techniques and the language you would use for a person. You don't have to anthropomorphize animals, just acknowledge their individuality.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas / Author
Acknowledge
Individuality
Techniques
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I always thought of deer as solitary animals that weren't very interesting. But my goodness, that was very wrong. The big eye-opener for me was that they're social. They have family groups.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas / Author
Deer
Goodness
Groups
Solitary
Family Always Me
Family Me Always
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You can look at your dog and see that it's thinking and has strong feelings. And if it does, so do wolves. And if wolves do, so do elephants. People aren't the only beings that think and feel.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas / Author
Elephants
Thinking Look People
Strong Feelings
Wolves
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From the very dawn of time until now and well into the future... human-animal companionship is at the very core of our instincts not only for mutual survival, but mutually rewarding relationships.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas / Author
Companionship
Core
Dawn
Mutual
Survival
Instincts
Rewarding
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We are surely the primary agent of death for all members of the cat tribe. For many if not most cat species, our depredations must surpass accidents, disease, and even starvation by a considerable margin.
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Accidents
Cat
Disease
Species
Starvation
Agent
Considerable
Margin
Primary
Surely
Surpass
Tribe
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Barring some competition from whales, wolves are probably America's most popular wild animal. Wolves are also contenders for America's most unpopular wild animal, with perhaps some competition from coyotes.
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Animal
Whales
Wild Animal
Wild
Unpopular
Wolves
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All the members of the dog family - domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, dingoes - are very aware of territory. A group must control its own territory - you can't have others taking it from you, because then you won't have enough food.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas / Author
Territory
Family Food Enough
Dogs
Domestic
Wolves
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We may never find a way to live in suburbia with deer as we do with raccoons, say, or squirrels. So for this reason, it's very important that we make sure always to save enough wild or open land so that they can live in their normal manner.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas / Author
Deer
Squirrels
Suburbia
Wild
Way Important Live
Manner
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Dogs who live in each other's company are calm and pragmatic, never showing the desperate need to make known their needs and feelings or to communicate their observations, as some hysterical dogs who know only the company of our species are likely to do.
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Calm
Communicate
Desperate
Hysterical
Pragmatic
Species
Dogs
Observations
Showing
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As far as I'm concerned, I own my dogs as I own my body. My legs are with me when I take a shower, and I feel no shame. If I were to lose one, I'd grieve, and people would send sympathy cards, but it would be my condition that evoked the sympathy, not the fate of the leg. That's like losing a dog.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas / Author
Sympathy
Cards
Fate
Legs
Condition
Dogs
Grieve
Leg
Send
Shower
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Every day, the humane societies execute thousands of dogs who tried all their lives to do their very best by their owners. These dogs are killed not because they are bad but because they are inconvenient. So as we need God more than he needs us, dogs need us more than we need them, and they know it.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas / Author
Humane
Inconvenient
Owners
Dogs
Execute
Societies
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