Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A story

I loved this book so much! It is one of my favorite books I've ever read. This allegory/fable reminds me in some ways of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

“Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight – how to get from shore to food and back again, for most gulls it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.”

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“He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form.

“Set aside,” came a voice from the multitude, “even if it be the Law of the Flock?”

“The only true law is that which leads to freedom,” Jonathan said. “There is no other.”