Spencer Prescott

“And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly”
― James Herriot

“I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.”
― James Herriot

“This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve, whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years in my life in study. Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion. I'd had more of books, but he had more of learning.”
― James Herriot, All Things Wise and Wonderful

“That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning.”
― James Herriot, It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet