Claire C

“I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.”
― Temple Grandin

“Men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Landscapes like ours were created by and survive through the efforts of nobodies. That's why I was so shocked to be given such a dead, rich, white man's version of its history at school. This is a landscape of modest, hardworking people. The real history of our landscape should be the history of the nobodies.”
― James Rebanks, The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District

“Books were considered a sign of idleness at best and dangerous at worst.”
― James Rebanks, The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape