James Herriot - All Creatures Great and Small (1972)

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If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

James Herriot

That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning.

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If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.

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Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got to really like it to stick it.

James Herriot

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

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He was relaxed and smiling, the farmer and his helpers were smiling, even the cow was smiling. There was no dirt or blood or sweat anywhere.

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And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly

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At times it seemed unfair that I should be paid for my work; for driving out in the early morning with the fields glittering under the first pale sunshine and the wisps of mist still hanging on the high tops.

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