The Book of Animal Ignorance Quotes

“Animals have this in common with one another: unlike humans they appear to spend every minute of every hour of every day of their lives being themselves. A tree frog (so far as we can ascertain) doesn't wake up in the morning feeling guilty that it was a bad tree frog the night before, nor does it spend any time wishing it were a wallaby or a crane fly. It just gets on with the business of being a tree frog, a job it does supremely well. We humans, well . . . we are never content, always guilty, and rarely that good at being what nature asked us to be--Homo sapiens.”
― Stephen Fry, The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong

“Brunei ants even have guards that explode their own heads when threatened,”
― John Lloyd, QI: The Book of Animal Ignorance

“I will not apologise for committing the crime of being born any more than a marmot or a mosquito should.”
― John Lloyd, QI: The Book of Animal Ignorance

“I cannot subscribe to this modern idea that we should feel guilty about our role on earth,”
― John Lloyd, QI: The Book of Animal Ignorance