Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
American Author
Born: Sep 13, 1931
About Animals Dog Dogs People You
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Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Animals Other Only Prey Understand Escape Them Species Need
Hundreds of species are facing extinction due to human impacts on the environment. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Hundreds Impacts Facing Environment Due Human Species Extinction
I don't mind aging - I'm glad to be aging. I'll never die young. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Mind Young Glad Never Die Aging
Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Alone Fear Besides Individual Thunder Like Most Dogs Being Being Alone Things Belonging
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. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Death Accidents Starvation Considerable Our Tribe Members Must Cat Primary Most Surely Surpass Disease Agent Many Even Species Margin
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. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Gadgets Like Look Around Piles Sound Leaves Sneak Woods Manipulating Who Fill
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
Game Respect People Nation Hunt More Feed Because Due Fish Than Die Departments Them Deer
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
Important Live Enough Wild Way Say Find Never Open Make Sure Always Normal Very Squirrels May Suburbia Land Manner Reason Deer Save
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. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
You People Once About Could Talk Identify Known How How Many People Which Reason Many
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. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Animal Affectation Refer Any Manner Ignorant Even
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
Dog Wish Group Every Others Membership More Over Like Most Supremacy Dogs Than Want Might Us Even
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. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Needs Communicate Desperate Feelings Calm Live Other Our Some Only Never Observations Hysterical Know Likely Make Known Pragmatic Dogs Who Showing Company Each Species Need
When I was very young, my nanny was a big Newfoundland dog... whose task was to keep me from drowning. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Me Dog Big Young Drowning Nanny Very Task Keep Whose
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. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Sleeping Other Main Main Reason Lions After Reason Creatures Deeply Savannah Sleep
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
Love Together People Dog Walks OK Stuff Like Learn Another Dogs Just Being Interesting Then Activity Belonging Playing
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
Food Family You Dog Own Control Group Enough Others Members Must Taking Because Territory Dogs Wolves Domestic Very Then Aware
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. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Simple Enough Relationships Seem Mysterious Taken Taken For Granted Dogs Often Granted Deep
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
You School Job Girl Husband Kids Married Through Put Boy Get Did Get Married Graduate Graduate School Your Two
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
Hunters Sedentary See Indoors Fellow Occasional Became Wolves Began Lived Livestock Started Raise
One of the best and most responsible things a scientist can do is to write for the popular press. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Best Press Responsible Write Most Scientist Popular Things

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