Nature and Elements

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes .

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse .

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction .

Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river .

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course .

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.

If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.