Snail – Quotes

Even a snail will

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination. Gail Tsukiyama

Most government officials are

Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by. Eric Johnston

It is unlikely that

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should? Epictetus

In White Summer, Joelle Biele exhibits a Roethke-like affinity with nature and natures creatures. At times a miniaturist, Biele constructs exquisite addresses to a heron, cicada, spider, catalpa tree, mockingbird, snail, cormorant, and others. These pitch-perfect poems are written with a delicate, meticulous attention to craft and music. Like the joy she takes in her … Read more

Moss grows where nothing

Moss grows where nothing else can grow. It grows on bricks. It grows on tree bark and roofing slate. It grows in the Arctic Circle and in the balmiest tropics; it also grows on the fur of sloths, on the backs of snails, on decaying human bones. … It is a resurrection engine. A single … Read more

Illness isolates; the isolated

Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail….the snail kept my spirit from evaporating. Elisabeth Tova Bailey

For observing nature, the

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail’s pace. Edwin Way Teale

Rocks, like louseworts and

Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist. Edward Abbey

The tourist travels in

The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to … Read more

We should learn from

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional. Frank Lloyd Wright