"Summertime and the livin' is easy." -- Porgy and Bess --

 "It's summer and time for wandering . . ." -- Kellie Elmore --

 "I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this." -- Susan Branch --

 "People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel." -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky --

 "Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem." -- A. A. Milne --

 "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." -- St. Francis of Assisi --

 "To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconqured mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told - that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks." -- Beryl Markham --