I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us. – James Herriot
I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears. – James Herriot
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
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. – Thomas B. Macaulay