Sy Montgomery famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Go out into the world where your heart calls you. The blessings will come, I promise you that. I wish for you the insight to recognize the blessings as such, and sometimes it's hard. But you'll know it's a blessing if you are enriched and transformed by the experience. So be ready. There are great souls and teachers everywhere. It's your job to recognize them.
-- Sy Montgomery

#Inspirational #Teacher #Jobs
It was not that I disliked people; some of them were interesting and kind. But even the nice ones were no more compelling or important to me than other creatures. Then, as now, to me humans are but one species among billions of other equally vivid and thrilling lives. I was never drawn to other children simply because they were human. Humans seemed to me a rather bullying species, and I was on the side of the underdog.
-- Sy Montgomery

#Bullying #Nature #Children
I never met a pig I didn't like. All pigs are intelligent, emotional, and sensitive souls. They all love company. They all crave contact and comfort. Pigs have a delightful sense of mischief; most of them seem to enjoy a good joke and appreciate music. And that is something you would certainly never suspect from your relationship with a pork chop.
-- Sy Montgomery

#Intelligent #Emotional #Pigs
Itâ€™s an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creatures. Itâ€™s a great time to be alive.
-- Sy Montgomery

#Writing #Important #Connections
Human relationships with predators have always been thorny. Predators are the first creatures our kind purposely eradicates. Too often, people feel humans are and should be in control; we are enraged to discover this is not true. And when other creatures share our appetites and kill our livestock (often animals we were raising to kill, ourselves), we call them vandals and murderers...Predators are the most persecuted creatures on Earth.
-- Sy Montgomery

#Nature #Animal #People
I had nixed the idea of having children when I was myself a child, having learned in the 1960s that human overpopulation was literally crowding other species off the planet. Why create another mouth to gnaw at the overburdened earth?
-- Sy Montgomery

#Nature #Children #Animal
Adult gorillas will fight to the death defending their families. This is why poachers who may be seeking only one infant for the zoo trade must often kill all the adults in the family to capture the baby.
-- Sy Montgomery

#Baby #Zoos #Fighting

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
Freedom is never given; it is won.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?
I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.
Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war.
Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.
The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.

Sy Montgomery famous quotes

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