Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children. – Michael Morpurgo
Everyone is interested in war, in that people dont want it to happen. Im much more interested in peace than in war but its important to understand why we fight. – Michael Morpurgo
One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail. – Michael Morpurgo
War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the pity of war as Wilfred Owen called it. – Michael Morpurgo