Pat Derby quotes
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“You have to love animals for what they are or leave them alone. The best thing you can do if you love them is leave them alone and see that other people do too.”
-- Pat DerbySource : Source: www.mtv.com
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“They [gorillas] are brave and loyal. They help each other. They rival elephants as parents and whales for gentleness. They play and have humor and they harm nothing. They are what we should be. I don't know if we'll ever get there.”
-- Pat DerbySource : Pat Derby, Peter S. Beagle (1976). “The lady and her tiger”, Dutton Books
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“I was born in love with all elephants. Not for a reason that I know. Not because of any of their individual qualities — wisdom, kindness, power, grace, patience, loyalty — but for what they are altogether. For their entire elephantness.”
-- Pat DerbySource : Pat Derby, Peter S. Beagle (1976). “The lady and her tiger”, Dutton Books
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“Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand.”
-- Pat DerbySource : Pat Derby, Peter S. Beagle (1976). “The lady and her tiger”, Dutton Books
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“Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.”
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Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
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Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com
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