Animals and Nature

Far from all resort of mirth,

The lark ascending.

My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns,

Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune.

Dark behind it rose the forest,

This is the forest primeval.

The call of the wild.

In her [Nature’s] inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

He has gone to fish, for his Aunt Jobiska’s

The Pobble who has no toes

Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view) consists of its attitudes towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

The great grey-green, greasy, Limpopo River, all set about with fever trees.

And he went back through the Wet Wild Woods, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.

An Elephant’s Child—who was full of ’satiable curtiosity.

The motto of all the mongoose family is, ‘Run and find out.’

We be of one blood, thou and I.

They settled things by making up a saying,

Five and twenty ponies,

Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware

Poems are made by fools like me,

Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn

Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!

She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue,