“In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.”

“If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.”

“Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasion...”

“The man who will not defend the honour of his cat cannot be trusted to defend anything.”

“A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.”

“There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.”

“Sometimes, insatiable curiosity and compassion are all that life requires of us.”

“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.”

“If spectacle is lacking in everyday life, it may be because we have forgotten where and how to look.”