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“The evening before I departed I stood on the rim of a lagoon on Isla Rabida. Flamingos rode on its dark surface like pink swans, apparently asleep. Small, curved feathers, shed from their breasts, ...”
“It struck me that the beauty we attribute to children isn’t something they have that we don’t. It's something they do, which we have long since stopped doing—just describing things as we see them, ...”
“It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his sho...”
“The three-toed sloth lives a peaceful, vegetarian life in perfect harmony with its environment. A good-natured smile is forever on its lips...I have seen that smile with my own eyes. I am not one g...”
“I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to p...”
“A fence should be horse high hog tight and bull strong.”
“Cats no less liquid than their shadows Offer no angles to the wind. They slip diminished Neat through loopholes Less than themselves.”
“Dogs come when they are called cats take a message and get back to you.”
“Hi handsome hunting man Fire your little gun Bang! Now the animal Is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again creep again leap again Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh what fun.”
“To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night. From his watchtower in the skies Til the dappled dawn doth rise.”
“Wee sleekit cow'rin timrous beastie 0 what a panic's in thy breastie! Wi' bickering brattle!”
“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”
“To his dog every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.”
“I think one reason we admire cats those of us who do is their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top no matter what they are doing - or pretend they do. Rarely do you see...”
“I think I could turn and live with animals they are so placid and self-contain'd I stand and look at them long and long They do not sweat and whine about their condition They do not lie awake in th...”
“Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions pass no criticisms.”
“If't were not for my cat and dog I think I could not live.”
“Men show their superiority inside animals outside.”
