Does the giraffe know what he's for? Or care? Or even think about his place in things? A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.

Eventually his books of essays were transformed into two stage productions. Negotiations are under way for further publication in Europe in Spanish Italian and German. His prose style is very simple and direct and finds life-affirming maxims in such mundane matters as zoos leaf-raking and dusting.