A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.

I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.

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.

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

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

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

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