“We have forgotten the wonder of the other animals we live with because they are among us, and because we have gotten more used to thinking of them as resources we can simply use.”
― How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
― How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
“After man there would be the mighty beetle civilization, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. Later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space - to another stopping-place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury. But there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.”
― The Shadow Out of Time
― The Shadow Out of Time
“the pain of parting is the toll demanded by fate for all the joy brought to us by loved ones, and I felt inconsolable.”
― The Penguin Lessons
― The Penguin Lessons
“Thoughts are not facts. They are suggestions offered up to us by the brain to help us make sense of the world.”
― Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: An International Bestselling Guide to Mental Health and Emotional Resilience from a Clinical Psychologist
― Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: An International Bestselling Guide to Mental Health and Emotional Resilience from a Clinical Psychologist
“Growing older with the people I love makes me happy.”
― The Penguin Lessons
― The Penguin Lessons
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