“Symbols, for me and for many, of freedom, whether it be from the prison of over-dense communities and the close confines of human relationships, from the less complex incarceration of office walls and hours, or simply freedom from the prison… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
“I have more than once tried to analyse this apparently deliberate form of self-torture that seems common to so many people in face of the extinction of a valued life, human or animal, and it springs, I think, from a negation of death, as if by summoning and arranging these subjective images one were in some way cheating the objective… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share
“I had been working hard at my book; it was one of those rare days of authorship when everything seemed to go right; the… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Symbols, for me and for many, of freedom, whether it be from the prison of over-dense communities and the close confines of human relationships,… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
“In moments of peace such as I experienced that day with Edal there exists some unritual reunion with the rest of creation without which… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
“We have long laboured under an obtuse presupposition that the senses by which other living creatures perceive their world must to a great extent… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
“There is something deeply awe-inspiring about the sight of any living creatures in incomputable numbers; it stirs, perhaps, some atavistic chord whose note belongs… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
“At dusk a broken wheel appeared, Held by a hand I could not see, And I knew that someone I feared, Had discovered an… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
