Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

“I remember a television program I once saw [...] I must have been seven or eigh…”

“Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary …”

“We ate the birds. We ate them. We wanted their songs to flow up through our thr…”

“I was taking something away from her, although she didn't know it. I was filchi…”