Temple Grandin Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life, and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Thinking, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I feel very strongly, we've got to give animals a good life. I've worked really hard improving slaughter plants and animal handling and transport. And people have said to me, why don't you work on improving conditions on pig farms? And basically, to be effective on making real change out there on the ground, you can only work on so many things. You know, you get too distributed, you're not effective.

  Temple Grandin

  Good Life, Real, Animal

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

• You got to get away from words if you want to understand any animal. It thinks in pictures, it thinks in smells, it thinks in touch sensations - little sound bites like, it's a very detailed memory.

  Temple Grandin

  Memories, Animal, Thinking

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin". Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

• Autism's an important part of who I am, but I'm a college professor and an animal scientist first. And I wouldn't want to change 'cause I like the logical way I think.

  Temple Grandin

  College, Thinking, Animal

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

• It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I have observed that the people who are completely out of touch with nature are the most afraid of death.

  Temple Grandin

  Nature, Animal, People

• I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants and use as a means to shape people's behavior. It would help prevent people from becoming numbed, callous, or cruel. The ritual could be something very simple, such as a moment of silence. In addition to developing better designs and making equipment to insure the humane treatments of all animals, that would be my contribution.

  Temple Grandin

  Believe, Mean, Animal

• We owe them [animals] a decent life and a decent death, and their lives should be as low-stress as possible. That's my job. I wish animals could have more than just a low-stress life and a quick, painless death. I wish animals could have a good life, too, with something useful to do. People were animals, too, once, and when we turned into human beings we gave something up. Being close to animals brings some of it back.

  Temple Grandin

  Jobs, Good Life, Stress

• There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire city. They can do calendar calculations. And this is similar to some of the skills that animals have.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Skills, Cities

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

• I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. My theory is that the environment animals live in should activate their positive emotions as much as possible, and not activate their negative emotions any more than necessary. If we get the animal's emotions rights, we will have fewer problem behaviors... All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.

  Temple Grandin

  Zoos, Believe, Animal

  Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2010). “Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• In my opinion, one of the greatest animal-welfare problems is the physical abuse of livestock during transportation.... Typical abuses I have witnessed with alarming frequency are; hitting, beating, use of badly maintained trucks, jabbing of short objects into animals, and deliberate cruelty.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Abuse, Hitting

• As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment.

  Temple Grandin

  Zoos, Children, Animal

  Interview with Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

• Animals make us Human.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Humans

  Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2010). “Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring.

  Temple Grandin

  Inspirational, Funny, Animal

• Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.

  Temple Grandin

  Baby, Hurt, Animal

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

• If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Unique, Brain

  Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2009). “Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

• A real common problem with a lot of animals is that guys are bad, hate to say it, but they will tune into some big feature like the glasses, maybe the beard, baseball hats, you know some unique feature like that. And they'll generalize like, "Okay! All people with baseball hats or black rimmed glasses are bad."

  Temple Grandin

  Baseball, Hate, Real

  Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

• Fear was my main emotion until I started taking anti-depressant medication. And I was one of the people where, as I got older, the fear got worse and worse. So I can really relate to an animal getting, you know, scared and traumatized.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, People, Emotion

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

• Well the dog that is the most is the a Labrador retrievers because they tolerate kids tugging on them and things better than other dogs. They are a real good natured. They’re also real calm and sometimes when working with autistic children that’s probably more popular dog breed - now there are different ways to use service animals.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Children, Real

  Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

• Animals do have emotion. But fear tends to be one of the most primal emotions.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Emotion, Primal

  Source: business.highbeam.com

• One thing I'd like to just keep on doing is I want to educate people about animal behavior and about autism. I've been doing autism talks for the last 20 years and there still are people out there that do not want to, they can't recognize that these sensory problems are real. That, for some of these kids when that fire alarm goes off, that really hurts the ears, it's a really real thing.

  Temple Grandin

  Hurt, Real, Kids

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

• Animals are like autistic savants. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that animals might actually be autistic savants. Animals have special talents normal people don't, the same way autistic people have special talents normal people don't; and at least some animals have special forms of genius normal people don't, the same way some autistic savants have special forms of genius. I think most of the time animal genius probably happens for the same reason autistic genius does: a difference in the brain autistic people share with animals.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Thinking, Differences

  Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2009). “Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior”, p.8, SUNY Press

• You have to use food motivation whereas a dog will do things for you just for social motivation, praise and petting. Also with any animal you want to stroke it. Don't pat it, stroke it. Most don't like patting.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Motivation, Animal

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin" by Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

• Basically when it comes to autistic kids and animals there's kind of three ways that they work, some of them are instant best buddies, they understand a cat, they understand a dog - they're best studies with it, they just know how to communicate with it. Then there's other kids that begin with a little bit of fear of the cat or the dog, but then they begin to like it and then there are other kids where you have a sensory problem - the cat meows and it hurts their ears, so they want to stay away from the cat because you never know when he might meow.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Hurt, Cat

  Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

• To understand animal thinking you've got to get away from a language.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Thinking, Language

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

• Different cats don't like certain litter. They also don't like an unstable floor, no animal like's unstable floor. So if you put a thin piece of plastic down under a litter box and the cat walks on it and starts to slip, they don't like that. Any animal doesn't like an unstable floor.

  Temple Grandin

  Cat, Animal, Different

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin" by Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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