Quotes About Observation

So you eat them. And don't try chucking them away. I'll know. I empty the bins.

Oh, how your ears flap and your long nose twitches!

You know the way they have mouths that don't seem to smile in the same way as normal people's.

The best advice for dealing with cats is: Always greet them politely. Don't make an unnecessary fuss over them. Be on the alert for signs they want to communicate with you. Never, ever laugh at them! If you're lucky, you might just find that your cat will decide that you are a magical person worthy of attention. Or then again, maybe they'd just like some fish.

It's not enough to do research from a distance. It's by living beside animals that you learn their behavior and psychology.

She's so sensitive, she's almost able to read their minds. . .. She becomes them. . .. She has a precise and very special gift, a way of observing and understanding animals that's rare, a sixth sense. . .. It's been this way since she was little. In

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Poetry is a kind of knowing, a way of looking at the ordinary until it becomes special and the exceptional until it becomes commonplace.

In her diary she described Tuzinka as a giant bundle, the largest baby animal she'd ever seen, weighing in at 242 pounds

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I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

I used to have a theory about photographing. It was a sense of getting in between two actions, or in between acton and repose.

There's no way that can be the river, Rhiow said. Rhi, the ceiling of Grand Central-- Saash said. It's backward, Rhiow snapped, thank you very much, I know all about it. Is it? Saash said. Which direction are you coming at it from? Rhiow closed her mouth and thought about that.

To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.

They were collectors of words the same way so many of the gravel diggers were collectors of fossils. They kept an ear constantly alert for them, the rare, the unusual, the unique.

when people are expecting to see nothing that is usually what they see.

People remembered. They wept and they grieved. In the spaces between, they were glad that the leeks were doing well this year, envied the bonnet of the neighbor's cousin, relished the fragrance of pork roasting in the kitchen on Sunday. There were those that registered the beauty of a pale moon suspended behind the branches of the elms on the ridge.

For nearly sixty years I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist.

Kita hidup seperti penonton yang datang terlambat ke bioskop: kita harus mengejar ketertinggalan sebaik-baiknya, menebak permulaan dari bentuk peristiwa-peristiwa lanjutannya.

For the first time in a lifetime by the river he noticed—really noticed—that under a moonless sky the river makes its own mercurial light. Light that is also darkness, darkness that is also light.

So much science has at its root the ability to see afresh what has been seen and thought to be understood for centuries.