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The animal encounter poem is now so distinct a genre that it would be possible to create a full-length anthology from deer encounter poems alone, and many varieties of experience would emerge from such an exercise.

I would just watch the animals, and their stories would roll out when I wrote.

I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.

Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.

I used to love wildlife as a kid and being outside in the garden and the woods and the field and that stuff.

I love using my imagination. I love writing about animals.

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife.

I really love learning about animals. I pull from a deck of spirit animal cards. You pull one, and it's about 50 or 60 different animals, and then that day you read whichever animal you pull. And it kind of gives you insight.

I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.