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“Maybe the builder had stood here and looked across the green vastness and breathed in the cold, sweet air and thought it was enough.” - 396

“Why had he filled the last years of those two old horses with peace and beauty? Why had he given them a final ease and comfort which he has withheld from himself? It could only be love.” - 285

“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.” - 270

“A bitterly cold evening when I had delivered twins on a wind-scoured hillside; the lambs…struggling upright and making its way, unsteady, knock-kneed, towards the udder…The shepherd…gave a slow chuckle. “How the ‘ell do they know?” He had seen it happen thousands of times and still wondered. So do I.” - 147

“I couldn’t say how long I had been standing there looking at the wonder that never grew stale; the little pigs struggling on to their legs and making their way unguided to the long double row of teats; the mother with her first family.” - 116