... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.

People's clothes ought to be buried with them.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.

Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Many dogs can understand almost every word humans say, while humans seldom learn to recognize more than half a dozen barks, if that. And barks are only a small part of the dog language. A wagging tail can mean so many things. Humans know that it means a dog is pleased, but not what a dog is saying about his pleasedness.