“In moments of peace such as I experienced that day with Edal there exists some unritual reunion with the rest of creation without which the lives of many are trivial. 'Extinct' applies as much to an essential mental attitude as… — 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 more properly to the distant days when we were a true part of the animal ecology;… — 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
