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I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. — that Mark Twain guy said that
Many people have sighed for the ‘good old days’ and regretted the ‘passing of the horse’, but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses. — C.W. Anderson said that
i have a difficult time with insects because they’re so creepy There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. — Alfred Austin said…
stop eating the tips of the fern ! After scolding one’s cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word and has filed it for reference. — Charlotte Gray…
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. — Iris Murdoch said that
The Federal guns sought the Confederate guns on the hills. They hurled solid shot and explosive shell, their iron insults shearing through oak and ash, brittle hickory, chestnut and elm. Outgunned two to one, with less reliable ordinance, the…
found in the backyard, growing like a clumped flower. i can seriously say, “i do like some weeds.” thank you to all who identified the flowers in my previous post I think about photographs as being full,…
I don’t go out looking for pictures. I go out, and if something catches my eye, that’s reason enough to photograph it. — Henry Wessel said that
one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish it never grows old, does it ?
When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I…