Narrator (Tarka the Otter) Quotes

“The icy casings of leaves and grasses and blades and sprigs were glowing and hid in a mist of sun-fire.”

“When the bees’ feet shake the bells of the heather, and the ruddy strings of the sap-stealing dodder are twined about the green spikes of the furze, it is summertime on the commons.”

“The tree was a friend to all, and it had one human friend, who as a child had seen it first when trailing in summer after her father hunting the otters of the brook.”