The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

- William Henry Hudson

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

- William Henry Hudson

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

- William Henry Hudson

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

- William Henry Hudson

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

- William Henry Hudson