Judith

“Why we should believe in wolf children seems somehow easier to understand than the ways we distinguish between what is human and what is animal behavior. In making such distinctions we run the risk of fooling ourselves completely. We assume that the animal is entirely comprehensible and, as Henry Beston has said, has taken form on a plane beneath the one we occupy. It seems to me that this is a sure way to miss the animal and to see, instead, only another reflection of our own ideas.”
― Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men

“cachinnation”
― Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance

“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

“Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?”
― Barry Lopez