“Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel.
Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel brain" are given over to one thought: food.
The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: I wonder what there is to eat.”

—  Kate DiCamillo, book Flora & Ulysses

Source: Flora & Ulysses (2013), Chapter Two: The Mind of a Squirrel, p. 10

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