Tool Use By Animals/tool Use By Specific Groups of Animals

Famous quotes containing the words tool, animals, specific and/or groups:

    One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
    Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
    Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

    Trees appeared in groups and singly, revolving coolly and blandly, displaying the latest fashions. The blue dampness of a ravine. A memory of love, disguised as a meadow. Wispy clouds—the greyhounds of heaven.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)