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I have thought for a long time that one day, if I finally got to deserve it, I would love to write about the minds of invertebrates.

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

Children are still in love with the wonders of nature, and I am, too. So I write them stories in hopes that they will want to protect all the beautiful creatures and places.

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

I just don't think I've had the desire yet to write a vicious animal - like a dog-gone-bad or anything - where I do feel that I need a balance of all types of humans.

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

It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to express the immediacy of what they were being affected by - and I love that. That is why I do what I do. I need to express myself.