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Joy Adamson

  • Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?

    • Joy Adamson,
    • in Barbara McDowell and Hana Umlauf, Woman's Almanac ()
  • [On lions:] It has always seemed miraculous to me that these colossal animals can move noiselessly through the bush, and are thus able to surround one without warning.

Joy Adamson, Australian wildlife expert, writer

(1919 - 1980)