Amy Wilson

“Growing older with the people I love makes me happy.”
― Tom Michell, The Penguin Lessons

“We are all culturally conditioned to interpret the world within a framework of understanding that’s both deeply ingrained and highly personal.”
― Lucy Cooke, Bitch: On the Female of the Species

“Natural selection will favour young mothers, who have less stake in the success of the wider group, who aggressively compete for limited resources. This prediction was borne out by the observation that when orca mothers and daughters bred simultaneously, calves born to older mothers were almost twice as likely to die in the first fifteen years of life as those born to the younger mothers.”
― Lucy Cooke, Bitch: On the Female of the Species

“As with so many of our assertions about what animals can and cannot do, being very sure of something tends to come right before discovering you're wrong.”
― Tom Mustill, How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals