List of Desmond Morris Quotes

The Response Of Teenagers To Their Idols Is Relevant. As An Audience, They Enjoy Themselves, Not By Screaming With Laughter, But Screaming With Screams.

I Think Like The Species I Am Studying, Whatever It Is. If I Am Watching A Lizard, I Become The Lizard. Gazing Ath The Water At A Pike, I Become The Pike.

This Gives The Agents Of The Gods A Powerful Area Of Support. All They Need To Do Is To Remind Their Followers Constantly Of Their Mortality And To Convince Them That The Afterlife Itself Is Under The Personal Management Of The Particular Gods They Are Promoting. The Self-protective Urges Of Their Worshippers Will Do The Rest.

As Long As The Human Race Is Able To Concern Itself With More Than Mere Survival, Soccer Will Have Its Place.

Sexual Behavior In Our Species Goes Through Three Characteristic Phases: Pair Formation, Precopulatory Activity, And Copulation, Usually But Not Always In That Order. The Pair-formation Stage, Usually Referred To As Courtship, Is Remarkably Prolonged By Animal Standards.

No Matter How Old We Become, We Can Still Call Them 'holy Mother' And 'father' And Put A Child-like Trust In Them.

The Roots Of Our Soccer Tribe Lie Deep In Our Primeval Past.

Looking Back Now On The Whole Sexual Scene We Can See That Our Species Has Remained Much More Loyal To Its Basic Biological Urges Than We Might At First Imagine. Its Primate Sexual System With Carnivore Modifications Has Survived All The Fantastic Technological Advances Remarkably Well.

It Is Interesting That Amongst Children Of Preschool Age, The More Intelligent Ones Tend To Sleep Less Than The Dull Ones. After The Age Of Seven This Relationship Is Reversed, The More Intelligent Schoolchildren Sleeping More Than The Dull Ones.

There Is Nothing Biologically Unusual About A Homosexual Act Of Pseudocopulation. Many Species Indulge In This, Under A Variety Of Circumstances.

The Age Of A Child Is Inversely Correlated With The Size Of The Animals It Prefers.

The Female Covers Her Breasts, And Then Proceeds To Redefine Their Shape With A Brassiere. This Sexual Signaling Device May Be Padded Or Inflatable, So That It Not Only Reinstates The Concealed Shape, But Also Enlarges It, Imitating In This Way The Breast Swelling That Occurs During Sexual Arousal.