Desmond Morris: Likeness

Desmond Morris is English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

Desmond Morris: 28 quotes1 like

“Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it is more likely to be female.”

“The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whip-cracking trainer, is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them.”

Source: William Johnson (1990), Rose-Tinted Menagerie, p. 10

“Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.”

Desmond Morris (2009), Catwatching. p. 2

“No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' or 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them (or their agents, who often adopt similar titles for themselves).”

Cited in: Daniel Rancour-Laferriere (1985), Signs of the flesh: an essay on the evolution of hominid sexuality, p. 112