#raising hare

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Elsewhere the hare is described as easily distracted, trembling, highly strung, melancholy and strange.

Chloe Dalton, Raising Hare

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-Chloe Dalton, Raising Hare: A Memoir

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"A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman’s unlikely friendship with a wild hare".

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A pair of deer locked horns in the lee of the wood. I startled a milk-white barn owl out of a pine above me. It swooped over my head, turning slowly, showing me the white underside of its wings and body and – for a moment, I was sure – looking down at me. The glimpse of its pale heart-shaped face jolted my senses.

Chloe Dalton, Raising Hare

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The atmosphere of calm suffused by her throughout the house lingers even when she is gone. I hope always to be able to summon it at will, along with the memory of the light and trusting touch of her paws in the palm of my hand, and her steady, unfathomable gaze. And when one day I can no longer see her, I will watch the hares in the field knowing that her being is woven into theirs, and that I have only to look up at night to see her symbol etched in the stars.

I tell myself not to count the years ahead in which she might never again come, but rather cherish the days she has given me of her own free will, when she lowered her species’ instinctive guard against humans, and shared the beauty and mystery of her presence in silent and graceful companionship.

Chloe Dalton, Raising Hare

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As the days grew shorter, the hare arrived back at the house earlier and earlier each evening, slipping in and out silently, sometimes emerging from fog like a wraith.

Chloe Dalton, Raising Hare