W. H. Hudson Quotes on Mind (2 Quotes)

A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing.

Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy that the lower animals are only unhappy when made so by man that man alone of all the creatures, has 'found out many inventions', the chief of which appears to be the art of making himself miserable, and of seeing all Nature stained with that dark and hateful colour.