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Holy sea turtles!" - Arabella Valli, The Equinox (Book Two of the Summer Solstice Series)
chooks. You cannot go away and leave
One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare ...
Carnivorous unicorns, I thought.
Goats and monkies!
We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
Mosquitoes, how wonderful! No one puts them in cages or makes pets out of them.
Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards.
The termites have got me.
F***ing triffids.
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt ...
We can move faster than humans, but with the obesity rates nowadays, turtles can move faster than most humans.
Nordlings. The men before men, creatures of great power and incredible cruelty.
Sept.17 (1780). When we call loudly thro' the speaking-trumpet to Timothy ( the tortoise), he does not seem to regard the noise. Sept.18. Timothy eats heartily. Oct.3. No ring-ouzels seen this autumn yet. Timothy very dull.
Do Tasmanian devils really exist?
A turtle should take fright at the sound of a boiling pot.
Would they ever let go, these grey, turtle-faced creatures? Would their stranglehold on the Western world ever cease?
I eat like a tortoise eats, if you've ever seen a tortoise eating. Like some prehistoric swamp thing.
Same hour, same set-up: woman plus tortoise, tortoise plus hibiscus, man plus gin and tonic. "To arm myself against the evening."
She had found it perplexing, a man who feared the evening because he feared the night.
A mix of human and lizard and who knows what else. White, tight reptilian skin smeared with gore, clawed hands and feet, their faces a mess of conflicting features.
I rode 300 miles through the forest and ate all sorts of strange food. And every time 'Torak' did something new, like swimming with killer whales or kayaking, I thought I'd better go and do it.
The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.
only a silkworm.
Hellbenders. I collected with exuberance and totality, bringing home almost everything I could get my hands on, and releasing them into the assorted outdoor terrariums or aquariums in my back yard (the turtles I let run wild in the yard, like dogs or cats).
I am rather fond of ladybugs. They are so delightfully hemispherical.
We have chickens! And ostriches - they're like a chicken, only bigger! One of my colleagues is working on a Tyrannosaur - that's like a really huge chicken, with teeth - but for architectural reasons we can't let it roam free just yet.
I didn't know this before, but as it turns out, Tyrannosaurs can really haul ass.
Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.
Cats. Furry little sociopaths that we invite into our homes.
With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures!
things riding mules
The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
See, they're currently in alien terrain, surrounded by millions of the most vicious creatures on the planet. Humans. - Newt Scamander
Elves, pixies, gnomes- the Moomins, Chorlton and the Wheelies, SpongeBob SquarePants- they all tried to invade you at some point.
What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?
Australopithecus.
fractious, four-legged children of Satan,
If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle
the lizard living at the base of her spine
Our houses are hosts to these creatures which are ultra-tiny (so small they were only first discovered in 1965) which live in human carpets, in our beds, on our food, floating in the air, in fact, they are omnipresent.
Tarts and tadpoles!...The boy is still alive!
What did turtles evolve from? Really, I want to know. And for God's sake, don't say lizards, because turtles are nothing like lizards. They could not be more different.
The turtle moves.
They are white, four-limbed, about the size of a full-grown human, but that's where the comparisons stop. Naked, with long reptilian tails, arched backs, and heads that jut forward.
You know what scares me most?"
"Chipmunks?
God save me ere I have any babies. They are grabby, clingy creatures who steal your figure and always want a ribbon or a wooden sword. And who sometimes make you die bearing them.
The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.
Who are the real monsters?
RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans".
Who has more leisure than a worm?
Rolling torture wagons for nature's most dignified creature.
worms and bugs. They climbed up the
Off in strata of porous rock by the leathery half-plant, half-animal little makers - and
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep;
And disgustingly upside down.
Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags
And grinning in their sleep.
Bats!
GIANTS RATS- I Slap all my enemies in the face! And shatter the teeth of the wicked, in the name of Jesus, flee toothless into the bush!
Spiders - the way they move freaks me out. It's so malevolent.
What has crawled up your butt and died? (Tabitha)
Turtles carry their homes on their backs." Running her finger over the tattoo, she tells him what her dad told her: "They're exposed and hidden at the same time. They're a symbol of strength and perseverance.
Families ... Could not live with them, could not turn them into toads.
For they were the stuff of nightmares; maggoty abominations possessed of incalculable and vile intellect that donned flesh and spines of men and beasts to shield themselves from the sun and enable themselves to walk upright instead of merely slithering.
May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.
What would it be like to be a turtle inside a shell hit by hailstones?
A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.
The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
Laetoli hominins, but we will never be able to answer them all. They walked down a path
E canchis amnia.
Everything from shells.
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.
How many frogs would fit in lizard's stomach?
Hobbits, just another Tolkien Minority
grandmothers. Elephants
They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy.
A flat black bug, that is London.
A rat is more alive than a turtle.
A turtle is slow, cold, mechanical, nearly a toy, a shell with legs. Their deaths didn't count. But a white rat is quick and warm in its envelope of skin
No turtle can be a revolutionist, because revolution requires high speed!
Who Stole the Tarts?
Men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, ..from the reader's choice about MK Gandhi and his works for the regeneration of human kind.
On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.
Two tiny corpses, one male and the other female, rattle around that enormous closet in my bedroom. Though deceased, still they are quick enough to hide themselves whenever I need to enter the closet to retrieve something.
Would you like to hear about the fascinating things lizards can do if you chew off their tails?
FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs
A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.
The world is full of damp rocks, with some very strange creatures hiding under them.
Fetishes ... they're the pet you feed or the beast that eats you. We'll feed your beast until it's tamed.
Over 2,000 reptiles await you.
Fucking zombies. They're almost as bad as tarantulas.
Weasels
and stoats
and foxes
and so on. They're all right in a way
I'm very good friends with them
pass the time of day when we meet, and all that
but they break out sometimes, there's no denying it, and then
well, you can't really trust them, and that's the fact.
Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.
They're one of - crocs and snakes are two of my favorite animals. They're so good.
Hamsters. We have other names for them; rats, weasels, rodents, but with their fine, golden fur, round faces and whiskers, what they most look like are hamsters.
The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and making a snug bed even there of some hair left after plastering and of brown paper; for even the wildest animals love comfort and warmth as well as man, and they survive the winter only because they are so careful to secure them.
But now all the natural secrets have been exposed, and it is likely that the turtles have been sold to laboratory scientists who want to remove their shells so that they can wire electrodes to the turtles' skin in order to monitor their increasing terror at the loss of their shells.
I pity snails, and all that carry their homes on their backs.
Red squirrels ... you don't see many of them since they became extinct.
If the hare makes too many missteps and has to keep adjusting, the tortoise wins. If the tortoise spends too much time planning each step, the hare wins.
Amphibians - the word comes from the Greek meaning 'double life.
What kind of maggot grows in the corpse of a day?
[ ... ] a super-rat. I nailed it across the eyes once with a lucky shot with the butt of my gun, but it got up again and shat in my telephone.