Not ashamed to say this book stole my heart and leapt joyfully away with it. 😭 Lovely, thoughtful, and tender, it would make a wonderful read for pretty much anyone.

3 Quotes I Loved:

"Through the leveret, I had rediscovered the pleasure of attachment to a place and contentment that can be derived from exploring it fully, rather than constantly seeking ways to leave it and believing satisfaction can only lie in novel experiences." (129-130)

"The leveret defied ownership, belonging only to itself." (143)

"I return often in my mind to the question of whether or not a hare can be domesticated. I now see that this is not really the point. To domesticate is to alter the nature of an animal in order to fit it into our way of life as humans. For innately wild animals such as the hare, a better way is to coexist.

For the first time in my life, I have had cause to study animals rather than people, and to see that we are not diminished by making way for them. Coexistence gives our own existence greater poignancy, and perhaps even grandeur." (265-266)