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

And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

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.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs ...[they] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty.