- [episode - The Garden]
- Stan the baby bird: It's not chocolate, it's not, it's not grass, it's not, it's not anything, it's dirt. I'm telling stories.
- [episode - Feeding Time]
- Seagull 2: English food is very bland isn't it?
- Seagull 1: Yeah, but I'm not I'm not terribly spicy, I'm not, well, i like spices but the spices don't like me, know what I mean?
- Seagull 2: I like spices, and I like all kinds, and there's nothing round here anyway, is there?
- [episode - Feeding Time]
- The Nag: The trouble with the foods we eat now, there's too much fat in them and the worst thing that happens in this country is too many people eat chips.
- [episode - Feeding Time]
- The Tortoise: Ooh. Egg and chips, egg chips gammon, erm,
- [pause]
- The Tortoise: chip butties.
- [episode - Feeding Time]
- The Nag: I mean, at lunchtime, instead of kiddies going down and buying a couple of apples or a couple of pears, what do they do, they go to the chip shops and buy chips and when they get home at night they have chips again.
- [episode - Feeding Time]
- Pickles: You know, if I have too much chocolate I get a bit fat and I put on a lot
- [giggles]
- Pickles: I put on a lot of weight.
- [episode - Feeding Time]
- Gary the Slug: Yeah she eats really well for her diet, I mean, I pile the weight on and she piles it off, so I think what she loses I gain.
- Gary's wife: I try and eat healthy.
- Gary the Slug: She eats brown bread and all that stuff, apples and bananas, you name it she eats it.
- [episode - Feeding Time]
- The Greyhound: The main staple diet for runners is...
- [episode - Feeding Time]
- The Black Stallion: We had, er, in fact we have wild strawberries, we have wild strawberries, er, and of course if it was acorn, acorn time, you could always eat an acorn, and even a thistle, you could always peel the top off a thistle.
- [episode - Feeding Time]
- The Fly: The crust on top, amazing, and then you get that gooey stuff inside but that sort of poo is a lot healthier, horse poo and cow poo. Cow pats are fantastic to look at with all those dung beetles crawling around inside them.
- [episode - Feeding Time]
- The Dung Beetle: Just as long as it's filling and *barely* edible, I'll pretty much eat it, I'm always too hungry to be picky.
- [episode - Feeding Time]
- The Spider: I don't catch flies because they eat poo and I don't like poo.
- [episode: Working Animals]
- Battery Hen #1: Come on, I'm watching you. Half an hour's gone and you 'aven't done nothing.
- [episode - Working Animals]
- Pickles: I really look forward to going to work because I really enjoy working with people that have got difficulties and struggles and I feel like I can make a difference.
- [episode - Working Animals]
- The Cockroach: I think it's good to work because you get dignity from it and I've done all kinds, I've worked in a hotel, I worked in this hotel in Tinmouth and I'd be there at night, I'd work on the desk, I'd help in the kitchen but I also cleaned toilets. I mean why not? I like different roles and it just means I can channel the madness in different areas.
- [episode - Working Animals]
- Teeth-cleaning bird: From, I think, just on a personal level, yeah I do prefer to provide a valuable service to them, definitely, I mean it's not necessarily painful but sometimes it can be a bit uncomfortable, you know, sort of like pulling at their cheeks sometimes to get right to the back of the teeth, so enjoy the end result, I think that's what they enjoy.
- [episode - Working Animals]
- Battery Hen #2: Teamwork. That's one thing about it I like. I wouldn't like to work on my own. There used to be more...
- Battery Hen #1: There used to be 200 of us
- Battery Hen #2: We've lost quite a few
- Battery Hen #1: We're all getting older now look
- [episode - Working Animals]
- Male Pheasant: Early on, when you're young, you kind of get too excited and you use up so much energy getting nervous, as you get older, now that I'm older you just try and stay calm
- [gunshot and pheasant hides behind a bush]
- Male Pheasant: ohhh go away!
- [episode - Working Animals]
- Lab Mouse 9: The thing about being in a lab is you're your own boss, you're free to sort of run several things at once and it's a very sociable atmosphere in many labs and ours is a great place to work and in some labs you can have music playing because a lot of what you're doing isn't using your brain at the time.
- [episode - Working Animals]
- Lab Mouse 4: I think we should all be in clinical trials, we have a moral obligation. Fortunately, I've never been asked but I take so many drugs anyhow I *am* a clinical trial.
- [episode - Working Animals]
- The Greyhound: I feel that if I've given my best performance and it's a good one then obviously I get the reward, the pat on the back, knowing that you've tried to do your best for your coach they've given you the training, the least you can do is-
- [race starts]
- [episode - Working Animals]
- The Dolphin: I do define goals and targets, but then when you get going it's fun, it's just good fun, really. It doesn't feel like work, it just feels like you're just being really silly.
- [episode - Working Animals]
- The Blackbird: You know, my job is, you know, I'm in the entertainment business, so you know I'm a singer, actress, whatever, that means I do a lot of travelling, you know, I have to fly to different countries sometimes.
- [episode - Working Animals]
- The Nag: I'm alright walking on the flat and downhill but I can't go uphill, soon as I start to go uphill I get chest pains, it starts to tighten up so what I do where I live there's a downhill slope down to the, what they call the co-op, I walk down there and come back on the bus.
- [episode - Working Animals]
- The Greyhound: It can be stressful, yes, as a runner because you strive to-
- [race starts]
- [episode - Working Animals]
- Lab Mouse 4: I'm terrified of retirement. Terrified. I really like my work and I don't want to retire. No.
- [episode - Working Animals]
- The Nag: The ideal weather for me is dry, about 68, 65 to 68 I'm perfect, anything over that or under that, I'm struggling, especially in cold mornings. I shouldn't really go out in cold mornings, I've been told, I shouldn't go out in cold mornings, I shouldn't go out in the wind, and I also, you know, I should just do what I can do and as I say some days I can move mountains, the next day I can't do anything.
- [episode - Working Animals]
- The Greyhound: Tactics are very important in a race.
- [episode - Working Animals]
- The Cockroach: You know, you hear about chefs being crazy, he was crazy, he would throw knives around, you know, thankfully I didn't have a lot of dealings with him, 'cause I was, you know, dealing with other, sort of, areas in the hotel, but I just kept out of his way. My friend got it in the neck.
- [episode - Working Animals]
- The Dolphin: I like that feeling of, like, accomplishing something, but if I had a choice, I would rather not work, and just really just have a really nice life, yeah, I think sometimes you feel a bit like you're a slave to someone else really.
- [episode - Working Animals]
- Pickles: If you work every day and you're doing something you don't enjoy then life must be so miserable, you know, and if you're doing something you don't enjoy, I don't know why you don't just give it up and do something you do enjoy because, you know, you may as well enjoy life because you don't live for very long so you may as well enjoy what you're doing when you are working and I really enjoy what I do and if I ever did something that I didn't enjoy then I'd give it up immediately and do something that I really did enjoy because I like to enjoy life, you know.
- [episode - Working Animals]
- The Owl: I'm looking for a job of the sort of clerical nature, administrative perhaps, preferably to do with customer relations.
- [episode - Working Animals]
- The Greyhound: When I retire from racing, I don't even like to think about it, I feel that each day I can run, touch wood, with, er, injury free conditions then I'll run til I drop.
- [episode - Working Animals]
- Battery Hen #2: When we work in a factory we are looked after, aren't we, we have the dentist, the chiropodist.
- Battery Hen #4: Chest x-rays.
- Battery Hen #2: We get all our injections done and everything, you know, without even going out of the factory, which is good.
- [episode - Working Animals]
- Maggot on a fishhook: You can't be morbid, else you wouldn't be able to do the work, you've got to have laugh or a joke, you have a joke, you know. It's just you or them, isn't it. Just animal instinct.
- [episode - Working Animals]
- Battery Hen #5: I think Feng Shui should be introduced to all office environments.
- [episode - Working Animals]
- Teeth-cleaning bird: I'd like to have a go at trying to clean an elephant's tusks.
- [episode - Working Animals]
- Lab Mouse 4: Can I just tell you something, that is not a human ear on the back of a mouse, that is one of the most grotesque misrepresentations that I know, it's a piece of cartilage *shaped* like a human ear put into an epithelial covering, it's *not* a human ear.
- [episode - The Sea]
- The Turtle: The sea, that black vastness, coupled with your imagination of the sea and the fact that the sea has all these creatures that are from other planets, the vastness of the sea out there and sea monsters and dark, you're right against it, you know what I mean? You're right against it.
- [episode - The Sea]
- The Amoeba: How is water water? It's an eternal mystery. Every time I look at it, it just completely amazes me. It behaves unlike any other material that we've got on the planet. It has a property that nothing else has which is a form of quantum coherence. But water seems to have, the quantum coherence field moves outside the molecule and the water can be seen to be acting as a whole and this is extraordinarily unusual.
- [episode - The Sea]
- Walrus 1: You enjoy being buoyed up by it, but of course with every swell there's always a little dip at the other side so that's something that you always have to check for and be aware of.
- Walrus 2: That's too clever for me, all that stuff.
- [episode - The Sea]
- The Dolphin: I was scared of the sea because it was really big and I was really little, and it was just really huge and it was cold and it was unpredictable and, you know, you'd get splashed and knocked over and I got dumped a few times by the waves and I didn't like that at all, not one bit, and it would be all in my eyes, and no it wasn't very nice but once I learned to swim, I was much happier and now I can't wait, I'll always go swimming in the sea now.
- [episode - The Sea]
- Walrus 1: I think it's a great medium, it supports you, it's fun, it's, you know, a beautiful environment to be in so for me, I love water
- Walrus 2: I don't love water, I'm scared in the water.
- [episode - The Sea]
- The Jellyfish: When I'm swimming on my front, I haven't still learned the technique of tilting my head to the side and taking in a breath. I take in a lot of water, that's the way it is, seriously I drink so much water that it's a danger to others.
- [episode - The Sea]
- The Shark: The sound of the sea. Definitely, the sound of the sea. I find it really, really peaceful.
- [episode - The Sea]
- The Archer Fish: I like swimming, because, er, you can, erm, lose yourself, you can be on your own, you know, you have more space. It's nature you know, it's nice.
- [episode - The Sea]
- Seagull 1: Bobbing around in the sea?
- Seagull 2: I don't like bobbing around in the sea.
- Seagull 1: I used to like bobbing around in the sea, put it that way, when we were younger but I don't go now.
- [episode - The Sea]
- Shrimp 1: I'm an excellent swimmer and I've got loads of badges and I've won a few competitions, I've got life saving awards and all sorts of badges.
- [episode - The Sea]
- Walrus 1: I'd like, er, to have something that would unfold out of your nose, like a teriscope.
- Walrus 2: A periscope.
- Walrus 1: Like a periscope so that when you went swimming you could just shoot this periscope up.
- Walrus 2: Oh yes that would be good.
- Walrus 1: And you could just get air the whole time, that would be great. It would have to be very long though, wouldn't it, because if you're going 20 foot down or something.
- Walrus 2: Yeah, I think so.
- [episode - The Sea]
- The Amoeba: I have a geolistic relationship with the ocean. I'm absolutely thrilled by it and energised by it but I'm made nervous by its immensity and its depth