Quote by Gerald Durrell

“These hooves were made for walking.”

— Steve Merrick

“There was something very odd about the carpet this morning… More hedgehogs? Many more hedgehogs? Positively a lake of hedgehogs?”

— Robin McKinley

“And I wonder if any of the road-kill creatures actually wanted to die and threw themselves beneath the speeding wheels. A lethargic swallow who…

— Sara Baume

“It was some time before I could summon resolution to go down through the trees and bushes upon the flank of the headland to…

— H.G. Wells

“Most of the afternoons I would pass looking out at the pasture. I soon began seeing things. A figure emerging from the birch woods…

— Haruki Murakami

“Will you let me hold your hand as we outrun reason, brush past elephants, race up steps, tumble down hills, roll in the hay,…

— Samantha Sotto

“Who now strides on my trail devouring the distance between no matter how I flee, the wasted breath of my haste cast into the…

— Steven Erikson

“These were the sorts of notions that had been raised in all my classes, and we had chased them round and round like dogs…

— Lorrie Moore

“All’s well here. Hope your life is full of mice, moles, voles, butterflies, and the occasional inattentive bird. In Catitude, Sneaky Pie”

— Rita Mae Brown

“Sometimes I rode north to the big prairie-dog town to watch the brown earth-owls fly home in the late afternoon and go down to…

— Willa Cather

“Indeed, everything that could hum, or buzz, or sing, or bloom had a part in my education--noisy-throated frogs, katydids and crickets held in my…

— Helen Keller

“It wasn't just that I saw in his book, reflected backwards and dimly, my own retreat into wildness. It was this: of all the…

— Helen Macdonald