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Hundreds of species are facing extinction due to human impacts on the environment.

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

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

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

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

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

Dogs are a window on the natural world.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

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.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Hundreds of species are facing extinction due to human impacts on the environment.

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.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

From the very dawn of time until now and well into the future... human-animal companionship is at the very core of our instincts not only for mutual survival, but mutually rewarding relationships.

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.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

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

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

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