“Once bitten, twice shy. Once caring, twice cry.Once beloved, cant denyheart broken, twice die.”

“Zookeeper foible #1: Tendency to not equate fur and scale with fracture and scar.”

“A cats secrets run so deep that even the cat itself is often unaware. Their mysteries are as natural as whiskers.”

“For most secrets are kept by these: the darkness, the silence, and the cat.”

“The cat is beauty and the beast, a baffling blend, a wicked feast.For all who dream of varied light, the cat holds both the dark and bright.”

“Once bitten, twice shy. Once caring, twice cry.Once beloved, can’t deny—heart broken, twice die.”

“Even the Middle Ages, which condemned and punished animals in due form, was in this way much closer to them than we are. They held them to be guilty: which was a way of honoring them. We take them ...”

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”