“...I found a paradoxical happiness in realizing how little I knew of the realm of grasses and trees, and what pleasure could lie in acquiring even a slender store of knowledge. Starting anew brings a sense of renewal and possibility. I rapidly reached the limit of my understanding, losing my way in thickets of scientific language, absorbing gleams and glimmers of new information. The details slipped from my mind faster than the grass seeds that scattered as I walked, quicker than down blown from a dandelion. But each discovery, like the passage of a comet through the sky, enlarged my sense of the world and left behind excitement and warmth in my heart... and my gratitude to the hare expanded as my perception deepened.” KnowledgeLearningGratitude Book:Raising Hare: A Memoir Source: Raising Hare: A Memoir
“to be a good advisor, you have to set aside your own personal opinions and feelings in a kind of detachment or camouflage – since self-interest is incompatible with objectivity – and avoid the limelight. Maintained over years, this steady, watchful, guarded attitude had become a way of life for me – one in which I constantly looked out for pitfalls, anticipated threats coming over the horizon, and readied myself to move and adapt at a moment’s notice and melt from the picture. Was it possible that that I had blended too much into the background of my own life… blurring my own identity” International DevelopmentOverseasAdvisorAid WorkRelief Work Book:Raising Hare: A Memoir Source: Raising Hare: A Memoir