5/7/2023 0 Comments Kira buxton![]() It serves as a beautiful reminder for us to slow down and reconnect to the natural world. I loved the worldview from the philosophic Timothy and found the tortoise-approved pace of this book so radically refreshing. The happiness of his breed depends upon it. A favorite few lines: “My voice would shatter his human solitude. It’s filled with juicy lettuce leaves of wisdom shared through the sage, philosophical musings of a tortoise named Timothy (based on a real tortoise who lived in the garden of the 18th Century naturalist Gilbert White, and who was in fact a female tortoise but named Timothy because we humans hadn’t figured out how to properly sex a tortoise at that time in history). Timothy or, Notes of an Abject Reptile is a gorgeous and whimsically quiet novel. ![]() Timothy or, Notes of an Abject Reptile by Verlyn Klinkenborg ![]()
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