Douglas Adams Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them.

  Douglas Adams

  Horse, Animal, Ordinary

  Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency ch. 2 (1987)

• For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and plants off the planet every year.

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  Animal, Average, Years

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2013). “Last Chance To See”, p.275, Random House

• The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them.

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  Animal, Borders, Benefits

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.76, Ballantine Books

• It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?

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  Children, Animal, Littles

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

• We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on to them, where they were inappropriate and didn't fit. We simply had no idea what it was like being an extremely large lizard, and neither for that matter did the lizard, because it was not self-conscious about being an extremely large lizard, it just got on with the business of being one. To react with revulsion to its behavior was to make the mistake of applying criteria that are only appropriate to the business of being human.

  Douglas Adams

  Mistake, Animal, Self

  "Last Chance to See". Book by Douglas Adams, 1990.

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