The great vault over our heads was gradually filled with clarity like a glass with wine. - Karen Blixen

animals again will wander back a long way, and go through danger and sufferings, to recover their lost identity, in the surroundings that they know.

During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity.

I turned to the animal world from the world of men; my heart was heavy with the tragedy of the night.