“Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer.” MenMayVoiceHoursAnimalSilenceDarknessBrokenNeighborhoodWildernessNow And ThenDeerDo Not FearWilderCoyotes Book:Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail Source: Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail
“Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.” MeanEarthAnimalHavensBrokenAmazing Things Book:Magonia Source: Magonia
“I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant, an inanimate object, indeed lost to us until the day, which for some never arrives, when we find that we pass near the tree, or come to possess the object which is their prison. Then they quiver, call us, and as soon as we have recognized them, the spell is broken. Freed by us, they have vanquished death and return to live with us.” SoulDeathBeliefLostAnimalTreeObjectsBrokenReturnPrisonReasonableSpellsTrappedInferiorsDepartedCelticQuiverInanimate Objects Author:Marcel Proust
“On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f ) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.” IfsCertainAnimalWrittenDogFlowerHairBrokenFinePagesMadDistanceChineseDividedPigsBrushesFabulousEmperorMermaidCamelsClassificationEncyclopediaVasesStray Dogs Author:Jorge Luis Borges