Top 43 Quotes by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

About Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

These are some quotes by American author Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Author, who was born on September 13, 1931.

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

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

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.

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

To sit idly, not doing, merely experiencing, comes hard to a primate.

To sit idly, not doing, merely experiencing, comes hard to a primate.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

I always thought of deer as solitary animals that weren't very interesting. But my goodness, that was very wrong. The big eye-opener for me was that they're social. They have family groups.

I always thought of deer as solitary animals that weren't very interesting. But my goodness, that was very wrong. The big eye-opener for me was that they're social. They have family groups.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

As far as I'm concerned, I own my dogs as I own my body. My legs are with me when I take a shower, and I feel no shame. If I were to lose one, I'd grieve, and people would send sympathy cards, but it would be my condition that evoked the sympathy, not the fate of the leg. That's like losing a dog.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Dogs are a window on the natural world.

Dogs are a window on the natural world.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

I don't mind aging - I'm glad to be aging. I'll never die young.

I don't mind aging - I'm glad to be aging. I'll never die young.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

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

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

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

People acquire a dog, don't understand it, can't train it, get fed up, and... offer it for adoption, hoping to pass on the problem to somebody else. But nobody wants a problem dog.

People acquire a dog, don't understand it, can't train it, get fed up, and... offer it for adoption, hoping to pass on the problem to somebody else. But nobody wants a problem dog.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace.

Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

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