"I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different."

Animals, Children, World

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"I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different."

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"My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it."

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"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."

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"I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals."

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"I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them."

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