Please look after this bear. Thank you.
Michael Bond
more infosource: A Bear Called Paddington (London: HarperCollins, 2002), 11.
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“We are enjoying a descent of bears upon this region. If we survive it there should be much to tell. They are as thick as caterpillars in a pest year…A mother and two cubs went up the road by our house the other evening tearing down the small cherry trees along the wall. You could see where one of the cubs had wiped his bottom on a large stone and left traces of a diet of choke cherries and blueberries. I almost got one cornered in our pasture last night, but he lifted the wire and went under the fence. It is terrible.”
Robert Frost
more infosource: August 31, 1925 letter to Louis Untermeyer from Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, in The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963), 176.
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“Human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.”
Gustave Flaubert
more infosource: Madame Bovary (London: W. W. Gibbings, 1901), 210.
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“All the books tell you that if the grizzly comes for you, on no account should you run. This is the sort of advice you get from someone who is sitting at a keyboard when he gives it. Take it from me, if you are in an open space with no weapons and a grizzly comes from you, run. You may as well. If nothing else, it will give you something to do with the last seven seconds of your life.”
Bill Bryson
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