Animals and Nature

A hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits. on man’s probable ancestors

I was a stricken deer, that left the herd

Mad dogs and Englishmen

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

He prayeth well, who loveth well

And a thousand thousand slimy things

‘Why look’st thou so?’—With my cross-bow

And ice, mast-high, came floating by,

O Lady! we receive but what we give,

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, all in perspective.

Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

‘Will you walk a little faster?’ said a whiting to a snail.

This time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.

How doth the little crocodile

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of Man, without his vices.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.

Wee, sleekit, cow’rin’, tim’rous beastie,

I’m truly sorry Man’s dominion

Corn rigs, an’ barley rigs,

Green grow the rashes, O,