Animals and Nature

Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

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 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 .

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.

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.

The Universal Harmony records various wonders, and it says: "When the P'eng journeys to the southern darkness, the waters are roiled for three thousand li. He beats the whirlwind and rises ninety thousand li, setting off on the sixth month gale." Wavering heat, bits of dust, living things blowing each other about – the sky looks very blue. Is that its real color, or is it because it is so far away and has no end? When the bird looks down, all he sees is blue too.

Sometimes I'd yell questions at the rocks and trees, and across gorges, or yodel - "What is the meaning of the void?" The answer was perfect silence, so I knew.