Cats ... are completely self-sufficient and can leave you at any time and go off and make a living. And yet cats can have warm and loving relationships with humans.

When fear seizes, change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.

That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.

We humans will never know how meadows or mountains smell, but deer and horses and pigs do. Bando sniffs deeply and shakes his head. We were left out when it comes to smelling things, he says. I would love to be able to smell a mountain and follow my nose to it.

There is something all life has in common, and when I know what it is I shall know myself.

I just love the world around me and wanted my audience to love and appreciate it too.

I love to write and I love the natural world. Everything I've written about I've found exciting and it has never left me at a loss for words. I've always just done what I love.