Squirrels Quotes - Page 4

• In the backseat Moose and Squirrel inhabited a pair of six-year-old-twins, and wouldn't stop bickering and picking their noses. They were clearly in their element.

  Neal Shusterman

  Years, Elements, Pairs

  Neal Shusterman (2010). “Everwild”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.

  Will Durant

  Summer, Dog, Art

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans.

  James Lee

  Turtles, Sharks, Elephants

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• She told them simply and directly that the meadow was a place of peace and beauty, where indeed if one came to it in a quiet manner, the animals would not be disturbed; for there are lovely birds, and squirrels and field mice, and sometimes deer.

  Kathryn Lasky

  Animal, Bird, Lovely

  Kathryn Lasky (2013). “The Royal Diaries: Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769”, p.138, Scholastic Inc.

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• This planet is an exquisitely arranged and interconnected system. What's controlled in one place is going to have consequences in another place. Our job as gardeners is to try and figure this out no matter how small our allotted space might be. Discipline has to be the watchword for our controlling hands. It means not gardening without thinking of the garden as a habitat: for mice, for squirrels, for bees and wasps. For other living creatures beyond ourselves.

  Marjorie Harris

  Life, Jobs, Mean

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• They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.

  Robert Burton

  Dog, Business, Ambition

  "The Anatomy of Melancholy". Book by Robert Burton, 1621.

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• If a dog happens to catch a rabbit or another animal, it can very easily remove the hide. If a cat catches a squirrel, they have no trouble with that. But if a person does that, they will work all day and all night to get the skin off of an animal, because they don't have long canine teeth anymore.

  Neal Barnard

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  Source: therumpus.net

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• First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.

  Truman Capote

  Food, Grit, Breakfast

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• Man makes very much such a nest for his domestic animals, of withered grass and fodder, as the squirrels and many other wild creatures do for themselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Men, Nests

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.129

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• All paths lie together in the hand of god like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or less than the beetle's or the squirrel's or the sparrow's. All are held together.

  Daniel Quinn

  Lying, Hands, Together

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• A squirrel attacked me. I got attacked by a squirrel in Battersea Park. They're dangerous. It's rare. I've torn most of the ligaments in my knee. So no football for me. It's early retirement now. I've got a floating knee-cap!

  Niall Horan

  Football, Retirement, Floating

  "One Direction's Niall Horan blames squirrel for knee injury" by Tom Eames, www.digitalspy.com. October 07, 2012.

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• I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.

  Mike Farrell

  Dog, Army, Years

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• Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Believe, World, Ulysses

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• My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.

  Eric Roberts

  Travel, Fun, Cat

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• The Pleading of the Summer - That other Prank - of Snow - That Cushions Mystery with Tulle, For fear the Squirrels - know.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Snow, Tulle

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.310, Harvard University Press

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• Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.

  John Muir

  Nature, Morning, Sleep

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.235, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Even squirrels know enough to store nuts, so that they will have something to eat when food gets scarce. But the welfare state has spawned a whole class of people who spend everything they get when times are good, and look to others to provide for their food and other basic needs when times turn bad.

  Thomas Sowell

  Nuts, Class, People

  "A time to speak plain". "Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette", July 24, 2012.

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• I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and squirrels. I hear the life of the trees this wood came from.

  Garth Stein

  Rain, Fire, Years

  Garth Stein (2014). “A Sudden Light”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• The life of the wood, meadow, and lake go on without us. Flowers bloom, set seed and die back; squirrels hide nuts in the fall and scold all year long; bobcats track the snowy lake in winter; deer browse the willow shoots in spring. Humans are but intruders who have presumed the right to be observers, and who, out of observation, find understanding.

  Ann Zwinger

  Nature, Spring, Flower

  Ann Zwinger (1970). “Beyond the Aspen Grove”, p.9, Big Earth Publishing

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• Red squirrels... you don't see many of them since they became extinct.

  Michael Aspel

  Red

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• The mammalian brain evolved exquisite place memory because that was essential for survival. This is why squirrels have such a good memory for where they buried their nuts.

  Daniel Levitin

  Memories, Nuts, Brain

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• Magnus's eyes gleamed. "He seems to like you. I saw him going for your hand out there like a squirrel diving for a peanut.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Hands, Diving

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.944, Simon and Schuster

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• Neferet, you're nuttier than squirrel turds.

  P. C. Cast

  Turds

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• Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

  Jay Griffiths

  Cat, Animal, Play

  "Fifty years on, the silence of Rachel Carson's spring consumes us" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.

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• Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn't live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel. The world was simply grander back then, somehow more civilized, and nicer to look at.

  David Sedaris

  Weed, Looks, World

  "This Old House" by David Sedaris, www.newyorker.com. July 9, 2007.

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