Here Be Chickens. Indeed.
I’ll never forget this moment, when I turned the page to a chapter about chickens whilst house-sitting with chickens.
It occurred to me that we had spent a day rapt with wonder watching the mountain gorillas, and being particularly moved at how human they seemed.... To find afterward that a couple hours spent with actual humans was merely irritating was a bit confusing.
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"'Want to see some endangered mice?'
'I didn't think mice were an endangered species yet,' I said.
'I didn't say anything about the species,' said Richard. 'I just meant the particular [feed] mice.'"
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Every official you encounter will make life as unpleasant as he possibly can until you pay him to stop it.
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Some fish were jumping up the beach and into a tree, which struck me as an odd thing for a fish to do, but I tried not to be judgmental about it.
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