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“Iris instantly wished she had thought better of her offer.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“The goal is not to anthropomorphize animals but to help us understand them better. Most importantly, these comparisons serve to point out that animals are not dimwitted creatures clearly stuck a level below us on the evolutionary scale, creatures that experience only pale imitations of our rich range of sensations for pain and other such feelings. No. People who understand that deer, wild boar, and ravens lead their own lives, perfect in their own way, and have a lot of fun while they’re at it, might even respect animals as insignificant as the tiny weevils that rummage around contented and happy in the leaf litter of ancient forests.”
― Peter Wohlleben, The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World

“I closed my eyes and felt something as I let her hug surround me. I felt loved.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“If we really are the most intelligent species on Earth—and I believe we are—why didn’t science approach this from the other direction a long time ago? Why are years spent painstakingly teaching lab animals sign language if modern researchers believe that their capacity to learn is less than ours? Wouldn’t it be much easier if we finally began to learn the language of animals?”
― Peter Wohlleben, The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World