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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

I don’t mind aging – I’m glad to be aging. I’ll never die young.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Cats and dogs are a very good window into the natural world: a chance to see how another species lives and deals with its problems, what they like and what they don’t like.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

If you don’t have manufactured items or anything we think of as ‘civilization,’ then you’re living according to your species.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

We used to go in the woods by ourselves, and you can’t help noticing the world then, especially animals. People used to know a lot about the natural world, especially in the country.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

One of the best and most responsible things a scientist can do is to write for the popular press.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

When we became sedentary, lived indoors, and started to raise livestock, we began to see wolves not as occasional fur-bearers or fellow hunters but as robbers.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Barring some competition from whales, wolves are probably America’s most popular wild animal. Wolves are also contenders for America’s most unpopular wild animal, with perhaps some competition from coyotes.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

This was what you did in the ’50s: You get married, get a job, put your husband through graduate school, and have two kids – a girl and a boy.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

The dogs and I are a single thing, and thus we share our interests. With them, I’m bigger and better than I am without them, and vice versa.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

The relationships we have with dogs seem simple enough and often are taken for granted. But these relationships can be deep and mysterious, and not at all simple.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Hundreds of species are facing extinction due to human impacts on the environment.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

When I write about animals, I use anthropological techniques and the language you would use for a person. You don’t have to anthropomorphize animals, just acknowledge their individuality.

– Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

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