Biographies animales Quotes

“Yet I propose another approach. I suggest we place ourselves beside the animal in order to understand what it (sic) lives, experiences, and feels at any given moment or period, or across its (sic) entire life. In line with my earlier work, the idea is to be on the side of the animal— not on the human’s side, or in the middle.”
― Éric Baratay, Biographies animales: Des Vies retrouvées

“If some [authors] used animals only as a pretext to critique humans, most wished to raise interest in a species, revalue its image, and change human behavior toward it. Anthropomorphism helps in the recognition of animals, not in our understanding them.”
― Éric Baratay, Biographies animales: Des Vies retrouvées