How to Speak Whale Quotes

“What confounds this dilemma further is that individual animals within a species have varying cognitive abilities. To quote the Yosemite National Park ranger who, when asked why it was proving so hard to make a garbage bin that bears couldn’t break into, said, “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.”
― Tom Mustill, How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals

“As with so many of our assertions about what animals can and cannot do, being very sure of something tends to come right before discovering you're wrong.”
― Tom Mustill, How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals

“We have forgotten the wonder of the other animals we live with because they are among us, and because we have gotten more used to thinking of them as resources we can simply use.”
― Tom Mustill, How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals