Many people take to animals to escape from human beings - but often, it turns out, because they find the animals so human. Others, of whom I am one, find animals a delightful change just because they are not human and never can be.


Selected Prose of Louis MacNeice, Wild and Domestic (p. 49), Oxford University Press. 1990

Louis MacNeice Quotes

Many people take to animals to escape from human beings - but often, it turns out, because they find the animals so human. Others, of whom I am one,...

Many people take to animals to escape from human beings - but often, it turns out, because they find the animals so human. Others, of whom I am one,...

Many people take to animals to escape from human beings - but often, it turns out, because they find the animals so human. Others, of whom I am one,...

Many people take to animals to escape from human beings - but often, it turns out, because they find the animals so human. Others, of whom I am one,...