Animals and Nature

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the colour purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

Ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam Scilicet atque Ossae frondosum involvere Olympum;

Geniumque loci primamque deorum Tellurem Nymphasque et adhuc ignota precatur Flumina.

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulette I could have worn.

Books that told me everything about the wasp, except why.

So, naturalists observe, a flea

At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make

I hear a sudden cry of pain!

This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr Darwin has called ‘natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life’.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin and glaring eyes.

For I will consider my Cat Jeoffrey.

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew.

Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is.

I am the daughter of Earth and Water,

A widow bird sat mourning for her love

A pardlike Spirit, beautiful and swift.

His life was gentle, and the elements

It is the bright day that brings forth the adder.

The heavy bear who goes with me,

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Pull down thy VANITY

The ant’s a centaur in his dragon world.