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.

In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.

I saw that animals were important. I saw that plants were even more important. I was also to learn that compared to many of the other species, we weren't important at all except for the damage we do. We do not rule the natural world, despite our conspicuous position in it. On the contrary, it is our lifeline, and we do well to try to understand its rules.

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.

With all due respect to the nation's fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them.

Dealing with livestock, animals that are 1,200 pounds with minds of their own, you have to watch out. Working with horses, they can go to bucking, in snow they can slip and fall on ya.