The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be.

The distance at which all shooting weapons take effect screens the killer against the stimulus sensation which would otherwise activate his killing inhibitions. The deep, emotional layers of our personality simply do not register the fact that the crooking of the finger to release a shot tears the entrails of another man.

I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated than the game's rules; both art and actively solicited perceptions are but special cases of the recurring creative act to which we owe our existence.

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

Barking dogs may occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot!

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive

Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he live.