英语作文给好友的一封信【经典20篇】

Dear Jeff,

Im Li Hua from Beijing Hongxing Middle School. I m very happy to learn that youre going to stay with my family while youre in Beijing.

To Jeff

Dear Jeff,

Im Li Hua from Beijing I-Iongxing Middle School. Im very happy to learn that youre going to stay with my family while youre in Beijing.

While you are here, well provide you with a room of your own with a bed, a desk, a couple of chairs and a TV. Youll also have your own bathroom. Our school is quite close to our home. So we could go to school together by bike. At noon well eat at the school dining hall. Im sure youll like the delicious Chinese food there,and enjoy talking with friends over lunch. Classes in our school usually finish at 4 in the afternoon. You can then join other students in playing ball games or swimming. Itll be a lot of fun.

If you have any questions or requests, please let me know. Well try our best to make your stay here in Beijing a pleasant experience.

[高考英语满分作文写给杰夫的一封信

Of course in the whole wild world, there is only one place with which is

the coldest; and that is in Antarctica.

It was a beautiful fact that once or twice a year, there was going to be a

big parade; now nobody ever heard of that story; but let me tell you all about

it, one the North pole until all the way to its opposite.

After a day or two, the magnificent magician of the great London, is ready

to travel for its reward, of saving he town from a dangerous earthquake. After

that, he helped the poor people recover and saved a lot of townspeople that were

suffering for life.

When he was fully packed to go and travel, he double checked everything had

he was going to use or should I say need. Then he went to the airport ready to

take off they always made sure safety first. When it was ready, the manager

counted, “One, two three, get set; go!” and then the plane took off. It flew a

good distance, until it reached the beach. There the man enjoyed his life, but

was not quite astonished a bit.

When he was sick of that place, he decided to change another place to enjoy

his life. And so on he hopped onto the plan. When it took off, the man was

wondering what place are they arriving now? When he opened his eyes, he found

himself in the North Pole. There he rested and enjoyed his life. When it was

time to go and find another place, he decided to go to its opposite; Antarctica.

He was so very, very, very excited.

The plane took off again, and it flew a while until they reached

Antarctica; it was quite a long trip, but when they finally landed on land, the

man as so excited that he switched on his clothes immediately and went to

play.

He was having a very good time; at last he chose his place.

He went to the manager of the airport, and said that he could now rest;

because he had finished his work in finding his place of life.

He was very glad, and when he was ready to build his home, he thought about

the penguins. He had played with them a good time; at last he finished building

his house. He had made friends with the penguins too.

Happy day!

I have many good teachers, but my favourite teacher is Miss Li. SW he is a

very good teacher.

She is very young, but her English is very good. She teaches us English

every day. Her class has so much fun.She sings songs with us, plays games with

us. We are so happy . And we learn English well. Our English are very very

good.So I like her very much.

She likes reading books and playing sports. After class, Miss Li often

plays sports with us. We are very happy. We all love her very much.

This is my favourite teacher.She is a good teacher .I like my English

teacher very much. What about you?Do you have a good teacher, too?

Dear Mary,

Thanks for your last letter. Im so glad that you have been able (at last!

) to arrange a holiday in Australia. As I fear I wont be able to meet you at

the airport when you arrive, nor will I be able to be home until later in the

afternoon, so here are some instructions and suggestions. There is a bus from

the airport to the city. It is much cheaper than a cab. Take the bus to the city

and ask to get off at Town Hall railway station. To get to my place in the

eastern suburbs you have three options. You can either take a cab, a bus or the

train. I suggest you take the train, since the airport bus will leave you right

at the station. Get off at Cliff Station. From there you can either walk to my

place (about ten minutes) or take a taxi. Probably you should take a taxi as you

will have luggage.

When you arrive at my flat, ring the intercom for Flat 2. My friend Lillian

will be at home and she will open the front door for you and let you into my

flat. Presumably you will be tired and want to sleep. But if you feel like some

exercise after that long flight, you could stroll down to Cooper Park, which is

only ten minutes away ? you can see it from the window. Cheers and looking

forward to seeing you.

Yours sincerely,

Annie

P.S. I will leave something for breakfast in the fridge. Help yourself to

anything you want.

Mathematics was too difficult for me, the teacher spoke so fast that I

could not understand. I failed every math exam, my dad was very angry, he

wouldnt let me watch TV, or let me go out, I was very sad. The math teacher

always asks me to go to the office and tell me the problem. I am not afraid to

make mistakes, because I can correct them. I keep practicing, speed up my

problem, and dont forget to preview and review. In the most recent exam, I

achieved excellent results in maths. A good learner has many good learning

habits.

数学对我来说太难了，老师讲的太快，以至于我不能听懂。每次数学考试我都不及格，我的爸爸很生气，他不让我看电视，也不让我出去玩，我很难过。数学老师总是让我去办公室，给我讲题。我开始不害怕犯错，因为我还可以改正。我不断的练习，加快了我的做题速度，并且不忘记预习和复习。在最近的一次考试里，我的数学成绩达到了优秀。一个好的学习者有很多好的学习习惯。

Nowadays, there are more and more people playing with their phones

everywhere, hence it has been a big issue in our society. Some people think that

phones are necessary for them because they have to keep in touch with their

friends, customers and parents. Instead, some people think that phones not only

destroy their relationship with friends but also are not good for their

health.

Some doctors say that if you spend a long time on using it every day, it

may cause your eyesight problem. In addition, you can see unusual scenery in our

society. For example, people become indifferent and cold-blooded because they

mainly talk with each other on phone. It not only affects your physical health

but also your spirit health. What’s worse, phones also produce some harmful

radiation which really hurts your brain because it may cause your memory

problems and even get a cancer.

However, phone is not always negative in your life. There is a research

shows that it not only can kill your time but can also reduces your stress.

Therefore, we have to learn that how to control our time when we use it, and

also know that how to use it correctly.

Be in the place that a Chun Nuanhua opens. The brook is shedding water

livelily in a flock of group small fish， still have swan， southern the bird that

come back group not show one‘s feelings. Firn stealthily melt. Birdie twitters

ceaseless， seem to saying： “New bud new bud grows quickly， willow mom good do up

one’s hair “ spring came really. Mom tells me the The whole year‘s work depends

on a good start in spring， should cherish spring.

There was once a little boy that wanted to be an inventor. It was a very

big job, but it was almost his dream; and nobody ever questioned him about it.

It was spring, and the birds began chirping around the forest again. The boy was

glad that they were here, because he wanted to do some tests on them. When it

was finally the ending of what was going on, the boy went across the fields and

found out why the birds couldn’t speak, the most reasonable answer was: Because

those birds couldn’t speak, was first:Those birds have no tongue, and so they

couldn’t use their tongues to touch the places where they were supposed to. And

second they have no teeth.That was why the boy became a scientist after

that.

Everybody was very astonished to find out that a little boy who was only 5

years old to find out why a bird couldn’t speak. It was quite surprising for the

boy’s family too. They were all very, very, very proud of him. And there was

even a grand parade that day; and when this piece of news was reported,

everybody in the whole world knew all about it, maybe even China, or Hawaii; it

was really weird all of a sudden.

It was the time when the boy was to be a grownup; and it was also the time

when he was to find a job, because his inventor job had been canceled; for he

failed on one of the easiest tests in a contest.

Before what was repaired full of the training essays, somebody resigned the

exit sign to the elevator department, and was in big danger. The boy was the

only one that had figured out how to do this method. And so the manager called

him to repair this thing, and so he came here and finished his job; he was back

in business again.

Since the 63-year-old manager passed away, the boy became a manager. It was

a big duty that was on his honor, and when the time had arrived he hopped on the

scooter and drove out the balcony. It was quite an astonishing effect, but it

also proved of what the manager said actually the opposite of the single method

was the people pray.

After the most precious thing that had been used, it was the time for the

boy to return, but he yet never returned.

The Mid-autumn Festival was gotten on for, house appoint can inform mom

goes attending a meeting, a moon cake was brought when coming back, the box of

moon cake is very elegant, it is gules, writing above " riches and honour fall "

4 words, extremely beautiful. Ground of my too impatient to wait opens a box to

see only inside have 8 small moon cake and knife and fork, look very delicious,

I am greedy dc saliva, open caddy rapidly, immediately, I was stupefied, the

moon cake inside is packed without polybag, smooth move puts moon cake in the

box. I think: Such moon cake affirmation is not wholesome, expire easily still!

Can you eat after all? I still ask mother! Mom says: "You eat first! If feel bad

to eat, after eating uncomfortable, that cannot eat. " I ate, smell is very

sweet still.

Do you know what is the most precious and everlasting thing in the world?

Money? You may lose everything you have if you dont use money careful

enough.Youth?In ones long life youth is like a flash in the pan and no one in

the world has the secret to keep his youth forever. Beautiful look? Many people

pray that they can get hold of beauty, but it disappears far more quickly than

they can imagine. And when they are in real trouble beauty itself feels

helpless. A good job? As you grow older and your brain and hands cant work as

fast as before. It will become other peoples wealth.

Then what is the most precious and everlasting thing in the world?

When you are far away from your family and feel especially lonely, who will

you think of? When you stand on the crossroad in your life and dont know which

way to choose, who will you think of? When you encounter greater difficulties

than ever and need others encouragement, who will you think of? When you decide

to make the greatest decision in your favorite course, which shed cheerful tears

when see you get achievements? Whose wholehearted blessing will be always with

you no matter how far you will go?

Yes, its mother who you will always think of and its mothers love that

will be always be with you.

I once heard a moving story about a mother. Two children were drawn into

the flood and the situation was very dangerous. Their mother jumped into the

water without hesitation. But the mother couldnt swim at all. Jumping into the

water means she might lose her life. But at that time she had no time to think

about herself. She just wanted to try all means to save her children. Maybe her

courage touched the God. The miracle happened. She finally succeeded in saving

her both children. And she, of course, felt extremely exhausted.

My friends, mother’s love is the greatest love. Mother’s love is the safest

love. No matter you are happy or depressed, rich or poor, mother’s love will

always stay with you.

Dear teacher,

Hello!

In our life, since childhood, we have received the educational grace of our parents, now, we are receiving the educational grace of our teachers.

Teachers, hard gardener, all the time for our sake, and you are one of them. You and other teachers, three feet of the podium, a piece of chalk, do not know how much knowledge for us to write down. Chalk foam dyed your hair white, winter to spring, you in this small platform, do not know how many students.

I remember when I was just in junior high school, you led our class to teach us Chinese, but our classs Chinese score was not good, so I was afraid of Chinese class. Every class, I will be a person silently hiding in the corner. A few days later, you spotted me and called me to your office. At this point, the school is over and you are the only one left in the office. You kindly said to me: "my child, learning is an essential part of the way of life. It is by studying that you can acquire knowledge. But knowledge has the power to change everything. You must study if you want to grow up and get out of this backward village. And Chinese, is our mother tongue, is our root. We are all descendants of the Chinese people and should carry forward our mother tongue." I hung my head in shame. "Chinese is an essential part of learning. In fact, Chinese is not difficult to learn, as long as you carefully observe everything around you, usually pay more attention to accumulation, you will improve: you go back to think about it. Say that finish, let me hurry home.

As I trudged out of the office, I looked through the window and saw that you were still correcting our homework. The red marks on the exercise book all show your diligence and hard work. Since then, I will study hard Chinese, carefully observe the things around me, listen carefully in class. When you saw this, you finally smiled. This smile, like the sun, warms me and makes me work harder.

You are no longer teaching me, but you have taught me the most profound lesson. I will never forget you. I will never forget your back as you corrected your homework under the light. I will never forget the time when we studied together, the help you gave me.

Teacher, it is you who taught me Thanksgiving and taught me knowledge. I will always grow up with a grateful heart.

Wish: good luck in everything and good health.

敬爱的吴老师：

您好!不久，我已经踏上六年级的阶梯。吴老师，您为我们付出了许多汗水。今天我在这里和您谈谈心里话。

您是一位关心学生的好老师。记得有一次，我班的一位同学由于身体不舒服，在课堂上有些头晕。当消息传到您的耳中时。您就叫那位学生扒在桌面上好好休息，给他一杯热水，还向他问寒问暖。

还有一次，您给我们讲课时，一会打哈欠，一会揉揉鼻子，我们都知道，我们都明白，是你的感冒使得你如此。我想：“吴老师，您怎么不在讲台上休息一会儿呢?”可是我知道，您是为了我们而在顽强地给我们讲课……

在将近期末考试的时候，老师比我们更为紧张，所以常常放学后多上一节课，给我们补课。有些学生埋怨老师不应该放学留下。但您不在乎听他们所讲的话。时时帮助不会的学生，教他们解决的方法，给他以容易的理解，让他能够明白。我们遇到不会的问题便向您请教，您也耐心地给予我们讲解。

此致

敬礼!

写信人：

日期：

One sunday afternoon when I was learning to ride my bike, I fell down and

hurt my arms badly. As soon as my parents heard this, they took me to the

hospital at once.

During my stay in bed, they took good care of me and cheered me up.

Meanwhile, they helped me with my lessons. With their help, I caught up with my

classmates. Now ill try my best to study well to repay my parents.

There is an old lady lives next to my house. Everyday I can see her

wandering around the main gate. My mother tells me that she is retired and has

nothing to do, so she likes to talk to others, or offers help. Once she helps me

to carry my luggage. I am so thankful to her. She is so kind and I like to talk

to her.

there are four seasons in a year. they are spring, summer, fall and

winter.spring is warm and sunny. the trees are green and flowers are beautiful.

we can plant trees and run on the grass.

summer is my favorite season. the weather is very hot, sometimes it rains.

i like to swim in the swimming pool. and i can wear my beautiful dress. and i

can eat ice creams.fall is a beautiful season. the weather is very cool. we can

eat a lot of fruits. and the leaves are colorful.

winter is very cold. but in nanhai it does not snow. we can not play with

snow.

i like the four seasons very much.

My summer holiday is coming soon, I start to make some plans about my

vacation. I go to travel every year, this time, I want to travel to Tibet, it is

the place I always want to go to. I have heard about Tibet many times, my

mother’s friends tell me so many wonderful things in it, so I want to go to

Tibet. This summer I will go to Tibet.

Dear Xiao Wang,

I am delighted to know that you will be able to visit me for a week during

the National Day holiday. I am looking forward to your visit and to the

opportunity to catch up. Welcome to my home in Nanjing!

As you know, Nanjing has many places of interest to see, to discover, and

to enjoy. Among its historical sites are stone city wall, the Confucius Temple

with its magnificent night view, and Dr. Sun Yetsens Mausoleum. With all its

universities, Nanjing is a cultural center, offering an abundance of artistic

and musical performances. Its also a city of beautiful gardens and parks, such

as the Xuanwu Lake Park. With all these features, we will have a fun-filled

week, especially that in early-October, there are many sunny and mild days for

outdoor activities. So, I would suggest visiting these places first, and

deciding on the others as our week develops.

Finally, since at this time of the year the weather gets a little chilly in

the evening, I would suggest that you bring some warm clothing with you. Also,

as there will be crowds of people at the stations and on the trains, you need to

be very careful with your belongings!

Best wishes for a pleasant journey!

Yours,

Zhang Ying

Dear Mr. John,

How are things going with you in Beijing?

I am writing to show my thanks to you. You tutored me in my spoken English before you went to Beijing. With your help I made such rapid progress that I won the first place in the Spoken English Competition of the city. My achievement is owed to your help. Thank you very much.

I have heard that you and your wife will pay a visit to my school. I am very glad at the news. In that case we can see each other again. I am looking forward to your coming. I am sending you a telescope as a small gift. I hope you will like it.

All the best.

Yours,

Liu Jie

亲爱的约翰先生：

您在北京过得怎么样?

我写信向您表达我的谢意。去北京前您辅导我的英语口语。在您的帮助下我很快取得进步，所以能在市里举办的英语口语比赛中取得第一名。我的成绩应该归功于您的帮助。非常感谢。

我听说您和您的夫人要来我们学校访问。听到这个消息我非常高兴。那样的话我们就又可以见面了。期盼着您的到来。我给您寄去一件小礼物“望远镜”。希望您喜欢。

万事如意。

您的朋友 刘杰

Dear Mr. John,

How are you getting on in Beijing?

I am writing to tell you a piece of good news. I am the champion of the Spoken English Competition held in the city. The success is owed to your help. Before you went to Beijing you spent much time on my spoken English so that I made great progress in it. As a result I got the first place in the competition. Thanks a lot.

I heard that you and your wife would visit my school. I am very happy and expect to see you soon. I am sending you a telescope as a small gift. I hope you will like it.

Best wishes.

Yours,

Liu Jie

亲爱的约翰先生：

您在北京过得怎么样?

我写信告诉您一个好消息。我在市里举办的英语口语比赛中取得第一名。我，的成功归功于您的帮助。您花了很长时间辅导我英语口语，我因此取得很大进步并且获得比赛的第一名。多谢。

我听说您和您的夫人要来我们学校访问。我非常高兴并期望很快见到您。我给您寄去一件小礼物“望远镜”。希望您喜欢。

一切顺利。

您的朋友 刘杰

标题：中考英语作文题目为感谢信的写法

关键词：中考英语作文题目

导读：中考英语作文题目虽然是我们没有办法准确预测的，但是有些类型的题目还是出现频率比较高的。下面我们就挑选了“感谢信”这种题材为大家介绍一篇优秀的范文，帮助大家。

假设你叫Liu Yan，初中三年，你与同学们在一起学习、参加各种活动，相互帮助，彼此之间建立了深厚的友谊.校园网的英语论坛开辟了 “Thank you letter” 专栏.请按下面的要求给你的同学Ling Feng写一封感谢信.注意：1.这封信要表达你对Ling Feng的感谢；2.信中要简述感谢Ling Feng的原因，适当举例，并谈谈自己的感受；提示词语：thank you, at the end of , kind, forget, help? with,

stay in touch

Dear Ling Feng,

I would like to thank you at the end of our middle school education. You have been very kind and helpful since we knew each other.

You have given me so much help that I will never forget. Last term, I caught a bad cold and had to stay at home for a week. When I was worrying about the lessons, you came to my home after school and helped me with every subject. With your help, I didn’t fall behind others. Since then, we have become very close friends. I think I’ll try to help others just like you.

Thank you again. Even though we may go to different schools, I’ll always stay in touch with you. I wish you success for the future.Yours,

Liu Yan

Dear Mr. Brown,

I have been back, and write this letter to show my thanks. As the exchange student, you make me feel warm. Welcome to my country ,I’ll show you around in turn.

However , there exists a problem that I have left my dictionary at your home. I like it very much , for it was a precious gift from my teacher who comes from the U.S. I guess that my book may stay on your shelf in the bedroom .

Do you mind if you send my dictionary to me? I will pay for the postage and I’ll be very grateful if you show your warmness again.

I’m eager to receive your reply.

Yours,

Li hua

[英语作文给李华的一封信

My Darling McGeorge

You said that things seemed clearer when they were written down. Well, here

with a very boring letter in which I will try to put everything down so that you

may read and re-read it at a horror at your folly in getting involved with

me.

Deep breath. To begin with ,I love you. With a depth and passion and I have

felt for no one else in this life. And if it is astonishes you, it astonished me

as well. Not, I hasten to say, because you are not worth loving. Far from it.

Its just that, first of all,I swore I would not get involved with another

woman. Secondly, I have never had such a feeling before and it is almost

frightening. Thirdly, I would never have thought it possible that another human

being could occupy my waking and sleeping thoughts to the exclusion of almost

everything else. Fourthly, I never thought that even if one was in love one

could get so completely besotted with another person so that a minute away from

them felt like a thousand years. Fifthly, I never hoped,aspired, dreamed that

one can find everything one wanted in one person.

I was not such an idiot as to believe this was possible. Yet in you I have

found everything I want: youre beautiful, gay, giving, gentle, idiotically and

deliciously feminine, sexy, wonderfully intelligent and wonderfully silly as

well. I want nothing else in this life than to be with you, to listen and watch

you, your beautiful voice, your beauty, to argue with you, to laugh with you, to

show you things, to share things with you, to explore your magnificent mind, to

explore your wonderful body, to help you, protect you, serve you ,and...bash you

on the head when I think you are wrong...

Not to put too fine a point on it, I consider that I am the only man

outside mythology to have found crock of gold at the rainbows end. But, having

said all that, let us consider things in details. Dont let this become public,

but, well...I have one or two faults. Minor ones,I hasten to say. For example I

am inclined to be overbearing. I do it for the best possible motives, all

tyrants say that, but I do tend, without thinking, to treat people underfoot.

You must tell me when Im doing it to you, my sweet, because it can be a very

bad thing in a marriage.

Right, the second blemish. This actually is not so much a blemish of

character as a blemish of circumstance. Darling, I want you to be you on your

own right, and I will do everything I can to help you in this. But you must take

into consideration that I am also me in my own right. And that I have a head

start on you. What Im trying to say is that you must not feel offended if you

are sometimes treated simply as my wife. Always remember that what you lose on

the swings you gain on the roundabouts. But i am an established ‘creature’ in

the world, and so on occasions you will have to live in my shadow. Nothing gives

me less pressure than this. But it is a fact of life that has to be faced.

Third, a very important and nasty, blemish. Jealousy. I dont think you

know what jealousy is, thank god, in the real sense of the word. I know that you

have felt jealousy over Lincolns wife and child, but this is what I call normal

jealousy, and this to my regret, is not what Ive got. What I have got is a

black monster and any goodness that I have in my make-up. It is really a Jekyll

and Hyde situation... my Hyde is stronger than my good sense and defeats me,

hard though I try. As I told you, I have always known that this lurks within me,

but I could control it, and my monster slumbered and nothing happened to awake

it. Then I met you and I felt my monster stir and become half-awake when you

told me of Lincoln and others you have known, would you like to end with your

letter my monster came out of its lair, black, irrational, bigoted, stupid,

evil, malevolent. You never know how terribly corrosive jealousy is; It is a

physical pain as though you have swallowed acid or red hot coals. It is the most

terrible of feelings. But you cant help it at least I cant and god knows Ive

tried. I dont want any ex-boyfriends sitting in church when I marry you. On our

wedding day I want nothing but happiness both for you and me, but I know I wont

be happy if there is a church full of your ex-conquests. When I marry you I will

have no past, only a future. I dont want to drag my past into our future and I

dont want you to do it, either. Remember I am jealous of you because I love

you. You are never jealous of something you dont care about.

Okay enough about jealousy. Now let me tell you something. I have seen a

thousand sunsets and sunrises, in a thousand sunsets and sunrises on land where

it floods forest mountains with honey-coloured light, at sea where it rises and

sets like a blood orange in a multi-coloured nest of cloud, slipping in and out

of the vast ocean. I have seen thousand moons. Harvest moon is like gold coins,

winter moons as white as ice chips, new moons like baby swans feathers. I have

seen seas as smooth as if painted, coloured like shot silk or blues as a

kingfisher or transparent as glass or black and crumpled with foam, moving

ponderously and murderously. I have felt winds straight from the south pole,

bleak and wailing like a lost child; Winds as tender and warm as a lovers

breath; Winds that carried the astringent smell of salt and the death of

seaweeds; Winds during the moist rich smell of a forest floor, the smell of a

million flowers. Fierce winds that churned and moved the sea like yeast, or

winds that made the waters lap at the shore like a kitten. Ive known silence:

the cold, earthy silence at the bottom of a newly dug well; The implacable stony

silence of a deep cave; The hot, drugged midday silence when everything is

everything is hypnotized and still moved into silence by the eye of the sun. The

silence when great music ends. Ive heard that summer cicadas cry so that the

sound seems stitched into your bones. Ive heard a tree frogs in an

orchestration as complicated as Bach singing in a forest lit by a million

emerald fireflies. Ive heard the Keas calling over the grey glaciers that

groaned to themselves like old people as they inched. Their way to the sea. Ive

heard the hoarse street vendor cries of the mating Fur seals as they sang to

their sleek golden wives, the crisp staccato admonishment of the rattlesnake,

make the cobweb squeak of the Bat and the belling roar of the red deer knee-deep

in purple heather. Ive heard wolves baying at a winters moon, read howlers

making the forest vibrate with their roaring cries. Ive heard the squeak, purr

and grunt of a hundred multi-coloured reef fishes. I’ve seen hamming birds

flashing like opals round a tree of scarlets blooms, humming like a top. I have

seen flying fish skittering like quicksilver across the blue waves, drawing

silver lines on the surface with their tails. Ive seen Spoonbills flying home

to roost like a scarlet banner crossed the sky. Ive seen Whales, black as tar,

cushioned on a cornflower blue sea,creating a Versailles of fountain with their

breath. I have watched butterflies emerge and sit, trembling, while the sun

irons their wings smooth. I watch tigers, like flames, mating in the long grass.

I have been dive -bombed by an angry Raven, black and glossy as the Devils

hoof. Ive lain in water warm as milk, soft as silk, while around me played a

host of Dolphins. I have met a thousand animals and see a thousand wonderful

things.

All this I did without you. This was my loss. All this I want to do with

you. This will be my gain. All this I would gladly have forgone for the sake of

one minute of your company, for your love, your voice, your eyes, hair, lips,

body, and above all for your sweet, ever surprising mind which is an enchanting

quarry, in which it is my privilege to delve.

Gerald Durrell