写给圣诞老人的信英语作文【汇编20篇】

Good evening, Dear judges, ladies and gentlemen, my name is HeYi, I am from

class 165, today I am very glad to give my speech here, and my topic is

Life.

As we know, life is precious and only one time for every person. So dream

what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because

you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.

The happiest of people dont necessarily have the best of everything; they

just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched,

and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people

who have touched their lives.

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.

Live your life so that when you die, youre the one who is smiling and everyone

around you is crying.

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you

strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy. Ten

thousand years are too long, seize the day, seize the hour!

Think you for your listening!

亲爱的圣诞老人：

您好！

在往年，每到平安夜，我都不想睡觉，耐心的等着您得到了。

可是到了深夜，瞌睡虫到处围着我转。我不得不做起了美梦。

到了半夜，我忽然看见您驾着一辆车，朝这边走了过来，还不是的向我微笑。

终于，天亮了，我惊奇的发现，我的袜子里藏着我喜欢的礼品，我想，这一定是圣诞老人您给我送来的礼物。

圣诞老人，您知不知道您的人气有多高，每到圣诞节的到来，大街小巷的都挂着您的头像。还有着一棵棵圣诞树。到了商店里，孩子们都争先恐后的买关于您的东西。大家都想，这一切都是由您来一手制造的。

圣诞老人爷爷，您不知道，一到圣诞节整个地球都是热热闹闹的，饭店，商场的生意一夜之间变得红红火火。大家都互相打电话嘱咐对方，真巧，昨天我就收到了一个同学的祝福。我就顺了一个人情，连忙也祝他圣诞节快乐。

圣诞老人，您不知道。我特别特别想收到您的礼物，每一年的圣诞节您都会让我感觉的欢欢喜喜。兴高采烈。不知道今年，您又会送给我什么样子的礼物？我想写在床边上的一块小纸条。我想来想去，想有一只特别好使的笔、想有一个书包、一个铅笔盒……最后想来想去，还是要一本书。

另外，我祝您圣诞节快乐，万事如意。

XXX

20XX年12月26日星期日

Dear Ms. Reinhart,

I am terribly sorry that I failed to arrive at BLCU last Friday. I hope

that this did not mess you up completely, although I know that you had already

made some special arrangements for my visit with you parents and friends. I am

very sorry about all that. I am sure you will be sympathetic, however, when I

tell you that my father is dangerously ill in hospital, and that I found it

impossible to leave for the visit when he is in this state.

My father was working very hard on his project on protecting the

environment. I know the project has come to a very important stage. He and his

assistants did not take regular rest for three weeks. Last night, my father had

a heart attack and was soon sent to the hospital. The doctor said my father was

in a very serious situation, and, he might need an operation.

24 hours have passed. Nothing has changed. I have to stay at the hospital.

I will let you know if there is any good news.

I am sorry again and look forward to seeing you soon.

Yours sincerely,

Tom Williams

Dear Laura,

I was truly enraptured beyond expression to receive your flowers which

turned our living room into a garden. How considerate and wonderful of you to

remember my birthday. You just couldnt have selected anything I had have liked

more! You have a positive genius for selecting the right gift!

The four years I spent with you at the college have been the pleasantest

period in my life. I will cherish this memory forever. How nice it would be to

see you again.

You have been more than kind, and I wont ever forget it. My love and

deepest gratitude, now and always!

Sincerely yours,

Jane

There was once a little girl named Jerry that lived with her mother in a

small cottage in the forest, they were very poor, and could only afford to eat

bread. “Oh no!” cried Jerry’s mother one noon, “We ran out of bread, and it is

almost time for supper!” “Do we have any eggs left?” asked Jerry, “No, none;”

said her mother very worried.

“Don’t worry mother,” said Jerry suddenly, “I shall go and get some in the

market.” Then she ran off through the forest to the market with her basket.

Along the way, she was quite tired, and so rested upon some big rocks. It

gradually became late and Jerry decided to go and buy the bread, but suddenly a

wolf cried out behind her; “Please, please help me!” cried the wolf, “I have a

problem that nobody wants to help!” then he held out his paw to Jerry, there was

a thorn stuck to his paw. “Is this a trick?” asked Jerry, “Because wolves like

to eat people.”

“Oh no,” answered the wolf, “We do not eat people now, we only want to eat

some bread with mustard on top;” then he cried again. Jerry quickly knelt down

and removed the thorn from the wolf’s paw; “Oh thank you! Thank you!” shouted

the wolf joyfully, “I shall never forget your kindness!” then the wolf returned

to his home. Jerry walked to the market to buy healthy fresh bread, and then she

ran off home with a full basket of it.

On the way, she was still tired; and so she stayed at the same place and

the same time. As she was about to go, some greedy wolves blocked her way; they

had water in their mouths and said, “Give us the bread!” said a wolf, “Where are

the mustard?” asked a second wolf, “Just give it to us!” shouted the third wolf.

Jerry had no choice, as she was about to give the fresh bread away to the wolf,

the wolf that she had saved before rushed out and said, “Leave her alone!” he

growled, “That girl saved me before, and so leave her alone!” he shouted

again.

The other wolves had no choice but to obey, they walked away. Jerry thanked

her new friend the wolf, and the wolf said that he was supposed to do that in

return. And so to show Jerry’s respect for him, she gave him half the bread, and

returned home immediately to tell her mother about it.

They had some bread that evening, and Jerry’s mother including Jerry

herself all became good friends with the wolf; the wolf also had plenty of

bread, and moved his home close to Jerry.

The moral of this story was, if you help others and they will help you, you

help them again then friends you’ll become. It will be a peaceful life if

friendship is all around us; and that would be great for an important

lesson.

We often hear people say, “Never give up.” These can be encouraging words

and words of determination. A person who believes in them will keep trying to

reach his goal no matter how many times he fails. Benjamin Franklin once

said,”Great works are performed not by strength,but by perseverance.”From the

remark,we can infer that,of all the advantageous characteristics,perseverance

plays a crucial role in one’s success.

Remember that year, I bought a bike,but I cant ride a bike! Mom seems to

understand my thoughts, gently to me: "tomorrow Ill show you to your square,

teach you to ride a bicycle." "Good!" Im happy to reply.

The next morning, my mother and I went to the square. Mother let me push

this bike, and look for the feeling, I have to not boring to walk cycles.

Fifteen minutes passed, and my feet really acid! I want to back down. Well,

learn the bike how so difficult, it is better not learn! At this time, my mother

said to me ": well, quite good!" Listened to mothers words, my heart is light

suddenly full of confidence. Mother then began to lecture, "learning bicycle,

the most important thing is to keep the car balance, otherwise the car like a no

head of flies, left, right. Didnt walk a few steps, I already fell off. My

knees hurt, out of the red blood, looking at this bright red blood, I cant help

but shed a hot tears, his mouth still keeps saying: "I dont learn, I dont

learn! After listening to his mother, to longly say to me: "do what matter as

long as perseverance, perseverance, perseverance will be successful. Like what

you do is always fall by the wayside, how can success?" Listen to the mothers

teachings I have the confidence again, two days before, I had learned to ride a

bicycle, but most importantly, I learned to insist on.Now I see them as my

motto, adhere to is victory let it remind me to do anything as long as

perseverance, perseverance, perseverance will be successful.

Nothing can be more exciting than success to a man.But you must face many

difficulties before you can succeed. No one can make it easily.And its harder

for those who are in adverse conditions to succeed.However,everything has two

sides.Just as someone said, in every adversity there lies the seed of an

advantage and in every defeat there is a lesson showing you how to win the

victory next time.The most important focus is to establish a brief, that is

perseverance.The British ex-prime minister Winston Churchill had a motto of

"Never, never, never, never give up .Nothing can substitute for hard work. Life

is a process of struggle for success.

As the new semester is coming, I feel so excited. It will be my last year

in primary school, so I cherish every moment with my friends. I have made up my

mind to study hard, so that I can be competitive for the better middle school.

My friends and I have also planned to go camping and we so are so looking

forward to it.

In the TV station of Paris, a little boy and his mother went in for very,

very, very extremely important news, because one of their precious roofs had

been stolen from some bandits that speak Spanish. The news reporters said that

this could be very news worthy, and so he decided to report this on the news;

and they should be on it too.

When they were done, they checked it too, “And so today we have fresh news;

and it was Spanish bandits, they stole one of our world’s most precious roofs.

Who could these bandits be? And now we have the owner of the roof. [Giving the

microphone to the boy’s mother].” “The bandits were as strange as any is, and

they even have strange eyes like what France people have. Don’t you think that

they were just the weirdest bandits ever, and I have also realized that one of

the most important things or clues to catch bandits is to call the police and

tell them what they look like and catch them; I just don’t know why they have to

steal our most precious roofs; it was so strange and unbelievable.

“I shall soon find out what this bandit is up to; oh wait a second, our

world and Spanish had always been enemies; if they stole our roof, well they

must stole it for some particular reason, and I think that they need the gold to

make a magnificent gun; and so to get rid of us. Oh, and I think I hear an army

coming towards us, and I think that we are doomed.”

“Well that is today’s news and I hope that you have enjoyed it, and clear o

say I hope that you don’t enjoy, but Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Help us think of a

clear plan to defeat the Spanish army! Ah!”

The news reporter was clearly afraid of what was being discovered by the

woman and her child; the woman said, “Don’t worry; they still didn’t enter the

America gate, I have a plan.” Then she grabbed one of the bravest soldiers and

placed him in front of the gate wit which was the America gate, he said,

“Welcome to our land, and I am pleased to say that we welcome you; and we have

come to give you all of our jewels, if you leave us in piece.” “Well I guess

that we could obey it,” they then took the fake paper jewels that was part of

the plan, and left the real jewels of America in the castle asleep.

敬爱的殷老师：

您好!

您在我人生道路上，是至关重要的一员，如果没有您，那我可能已经对英语绝望了，不是你的出现，我也不会充满了希望。如果我没有遇见你，我一定已经没了信心。

您还记得吗?有次我在课堂上被点名读课文，而那篇课文我还没学过，所以我没有勇气读。可突然有个人对我说：“别怕，没有事，不会的单词问我。”我抬头一看原来是老师，我又充满了斗志，充满了信心。我终于把课文读完了。

您还记得吗?有一次虽然我们没考好，但您依旧带我们去外面放松放松心情，我们知道您这是想我们下回考好。我们一定不会辜负您的，我们一定加油，一定会拼尽全力。有一次，我在办公室门口看到有的老师上QQ，有的看电视，有的打游戏，有的玩电脑，而您却在桌子前改作业。别的班的老师都让组长改，而您都是自己改。

您还记得吗?有一次我们不听话，你罚我们到外头罚站。而我们也心甘情愿，因为您这是为了我们好!

老师，我们永远不会忘了您的。

祝您

工作顺利。

写信人：

日期：

Can Money Buy Happiness?

Can money buy happiness? Different people have different opinions. Some

think yes, while others hold the opposite.

It is true that with enough money one can buy all the things one wants, and

live a life of comfort and security. However, it is equally true that lack of

money causes great distress. It is a common view that "money is the root of all

evil." The pursuit of money drives many people to cheat and steal. In some

places there is nothing that cannot be bought with money, resulting in corrupt

societies where everybody is miserable.

So, money does not necessarily mean happiness. It all depends on how it is

used. If we make honest and sensible use of money, it can be a stepping-stone to

happiness l Although money cannot buy happiness, it can make happiness possible

if it is employed sensibly.

金钱能买来幸福吗?

金钱能买来幸福吗?不同的人有不同的回答。有的人认为能，有的人则持相反的意见。

诚然一个人如果有足够的钱可以买到他想要的所有物品，过上舒适稳定的生活。然而，同样缺钱往往引起巨大的忧伤。人们常常认为“金钱是万恶之源”，对金钱的追求驱使许多人去骗去偷。在某些地方，没有钱买不到的东西，导致社会的腐化堕落。

所以，金钱并不一定就意味着幸福。这取决于怎样使用金钱，如果我们诚信明智地使用金钱，它将是幸福的基石。尽管金钱买不到幸福，但它可以使幸福成为可能。

Everybody loves panda, because it is so cute. It is known to all that panda

is very valuable and rare. The government works so hard to protect it from dying

out. Besides panda, there are other species is dying out. We need to protect our

environment, so as to protect the animals. If they disappear, soon human being

will face the same result.

It was Christmas Day yesterday. I had a good time with my friends. We had a

Christmas Party at school. We sang many Christmas songs and told some Christmas

stories. We knew after Christmas the New Year was coming. So we said Happy New

Year to each other. We made up our mind that we would study hard to make great

progress in the coming year.

Dear Miss Brown,

I am writing to express my sincere thanks to you for caring me in the last

two years. During the days of being your student, I learn a lot. Firstly, your

serious attitude towards teaching and our students moves me too much. You

inspire and push me to work harder and harder. Secondly, I fall in love with

English under the influence of you. As a student of science and engineering,

I’ve been thinking that English does no good to me, but you help me to find the

fabulous glamour of English that leads me to know a totally different world and

develop a different way of thinking. Finally, your continuous encouragement

supports me a lot when I meet challenges or difficulties. You said that

everything to the last will certainly become a good thing, if it is not, not yet

to the last. Every time, remembering your words, I am so inspired to keep

going.

Above all, I want to say thank you again and please accept my sincere

appreciation. Best wishes for you.

Cruse

敬爱的布朗老师：

我谨以此向您表达我最真诚的谢意，感谢您在过去两年里对我的帮助。在过去的两年里，成为您的学生，我学到了许多。首先，您对教学和学生的认真态度使我深受感动。您鼓舞着我不断地努力学习。其次，在您的影响下，我深深地喜欢上了英语。作为一名理工科学生，我以前一直认为英语对我毫无用处，但您使我认识到了英语的魅力所在，带我走进了一个全新的世界，培养了不同的思维方式。最后，您的鼓励总在我遭遇困难或挑战是鼓励着我。您曾经说过：“每一件事情到了最后都会变成好事，如果不是，那说明还没有到最后。”每当想起您说过的话，我就有了坚持下去的动力。

最后，请允许我再次向您表达我的感谢，接受我真诚的谢意。献上最美好的祝福。

As a child， I am very naughty and forget about what my mother tells me. One

time， I go back home very late. When I see my mother， she smiles at first and

then turns angry， because she has told me before if I go home late， I must tell

her in advance. I let my mother heart-broken. I feel sorry and promise it wont

happen again.

16 April 2006

Dear Sir,

I am working on a new project which is called A Survey of New Industry in the Maywood District. According to the design of our district, we need information about firms that have recently moved into this area. Your firm is one of the largest of these, so I shall be very grateful if you can spare the time to help me.

Three points are specially important to the project. The first one is the training schemes for school leavers. The second one is about the transport arrangements to overcome poor road and rail links in this district. The third is the plans for expansion.

Any other information will be useful, but those points are the ones with which I most need your help.

I am enclosing an information form for you to fill in. I hope you can post it to us as soon as possible. I apologize for adding to your work with this request, but I do hope that you will feel able to assist me.

I would be most grateful for your favorable consideration of this request.

Yours faithfully,

Mary Spencer

Dear Mum and Dad,

Time flies! Ive been here for nearly a year. Im very pleased to find that our school is really a good one. The students in our school work hard at their lessons. They take an active part in activities that help to improve their qualities and health. They are friendly to each other and always ready to help each other.

The teachers here all enjoy their work and they love their students. They work hard and do what they can do to help their students. And the students respect their teachers. They get on well with each other. The students in our school try their best to kkp the school yard clean and tidy. They never throw waste about nor pick the flowers.

In a word, I am deeply impressed by the harmonious atmosphere in this school. I love my new school.

Yours,

Tom

亲爱的妈妈和爸爸，

时光飞逝！我来这儿已经快一年了。我很高兴发现我们学校真是一个好的学校。我们学校的学生在功课上努力工作。他们积极参加活动，帮助提高他们的素质和健康。他们彼此友好，随时准备互相帮助。

这里的老师们都喜欢他们的工作，他们喜欢他们的学生。他们努力工作，尽他们所能做的来帮助他们的学生。和学生尊重他们的老师。他们相处得很好。我们学校的学生尽力北校园干净整洁。他们从不乱扔垃圾，也不摘花。

一句话，我对这所学校的和谐氛围印象深刻。我爱我的新学校。

圣诞老人

您好！

今年的圣诞节又要劳烦您给我们送礼物，您可知道您在我们心中，不仅是和蔼可亲的形象，还是圣诞节的象征，到了圣诞这一天，每一位小朋友都不知道有多么希望您的到来，当然也喜欢您送的礼物。

这一天里大人们也在为圣诞节而忙碌，有的装成是您，给其他（她）人发放礼物，在这一天里有很多小朋友希望收到您的礼物，包括我在内。

在平安夜的那一天，大人们都会领着自己的孩子去买圣诞老人的玩具来庆祝这一天的到来，这一天有些人会带上圣诞帽，还会穿上您的衣服来减轻你的负担帮助您。

我很想做一次您那驯鹿拉的车，也希望和你去送圣诞礼物，哪怕是忙到天亮。

在这一天里您的粉丝可真是太多了，不知道有多少人为您的到来感到高兴，您看有多少电影是些您的，您那肥胖憨厚的样子一直在每个圣诞节都被人们想起。

今年的礼物我想要的太多了，比如说今天的圣诞节我就想和您一起去送礼物，还想要一直小驯鹿，让下一个圣诞节到来时我可好去找你，还有我想在这一天里和世界各地的朋友认识一下，还有很多很多礼物和愿望想实现，但是我还是想让您健健康康的，在每个圣诞节陪伴着我们。一直到最后的圣诞节。都不会停止送礼物，您的形象会一直在我们心中的，直到永远。

希望您能健健康康！

您的粉丝：XXX

Hello,my name is Janken.I study in a beautiful school.There are many trees

and flowers in canpus.Its green all the year round.There are three buildings in

my school.Two of them are twaching buildings and one is offce and library.Our

classroom is large and bright.We are happy to study in it.Besides,there are two

playgrounds in my school,a basketballcourt and a football fueld.After class,I

often play in the basketballcourt.And,there are many other places for fun in my

school.I like my lovely school.

English is the International language. My parents let me learn it since I

was three years old. But as China is becoming stronger, the world is crazy about

learning Chinese. Many successful people have mastered Chinese, so as to have

more chances to do business. English and Chinese are the future languages. We

must learn them well.

Dear Sir,

I was very interested in your advertisement in todays edition of The

Evening Post and I should like to apply to be a member of the Amazon Expedition

team.

I am twenty-three years old and have an honors degree in Botany from Bath

University. Since leaving university I have been working in a research

laboratory but my contract comes to an end in six weeks. I would particularly

like to join the expedition for the opportunity it would give me to study the

plant life of the area.

I enjoy several outdoor activities including rowing and rock climbing and I

consider myself to be both fit and healthy enough to undertake such an

expedition.

If you would like me to attend an interview, I would be able to come at any

time convenient to you, (J1) my employers have agreed to give me time off for

the purpose. I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours faithfully,

Lily Ma

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