Higher Animals Quotes (3 quotes)

“I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.”
― Mark Twain

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“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Humans believe that the lower animals are living in their world, when it’s just the opposite.”
― A.A. Clifford, The Enkantatum: And Other Stories

tags: food-chain, higher-animals, mortality, nature

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