Squirrels Quotes - Page 2

• As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors. It is to them that we owe this gift. It is not in vain that the squirrels live in or about every forest tree, or hollow log, and every wall and heap of stones.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Animal, Tree

  David R. Foster, Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape”, p.147, Harvard University Press

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• She's as nutty as squirrel poo.

  J. K. Rowling

  Nutty

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• Let me tell you, if you have never seen an agitated squirrel you have seen very little, nor have you heard much, because the sound of an angry squirrel is not to be forgotten.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Sound, Littles, Forgotten

  Joe R. Lansdale (2016). “Bad Chili: Hap and Leonard Book Four”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

  Hal Borland

  Nature, Earth Day, Bird

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• To make a squirrel look less uptight, put tiny sunglasses on it.

  Demetri Martin

  Sunglasses, Looks, Uptight

  Twitter post from Jun 18, 2012

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• The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  New York, Memories, Past

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• The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Animal, Humanity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.92, BookBaby

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• There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb.

  George W. Bush

  Technology, Differences, Bombs

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• The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us.

  Frederick Buechner

  Landscape, Littles, Cages

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow to the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe that will grow to slay me.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cutting, Acorns, Stardust

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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• November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls.

  Jean Hersey

  Running, Morning, Wall

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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• it annoys me a bit how people like squirrels but not rats. at the end of the day they're the same thing, except that squirrels have had a better upbringing.

  Karl Pilkington

  People, The End Of The Day, Rats

  Karl Pilkington (2007). “Happyslapped by a Jellyfish: The words of Karl Pilkington”, p.62, Dorling Kindersley Ltd

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• As God contains all good things, He must also contain a sense of playfulness -- a gift he has shared with Creatures other than ourselves, as witness the tricks Crows play, and the sportiveness of Squirrels, and the frolicking of Kittens.

  Margaret Atwood

  Play, Crow, Kitten

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• Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Happiness, Self, Cages

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• O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And promise of exceeding joy hereafter.

  George Arnold

  Sweet, Laughter, Spring

  George Arnold (1867). “Poems Grave and Gay”, p.45

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• Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Mean, Laughing, Example

  Nâzım Hikmet, Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1994). “Poems of Nazim Hikmet”

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• All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill the first requirement, you in flight and I in my tree. But there is poetry in the meanest of lives, and if we leave it unsought we leave ourselves unrealized. A life without food, without shelter, without love, a life lived in the rain—this is nothing beside a life without poetry.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Rain, Ravens, Two

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• This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch me—oh, god!

  John Green

  Enemy, Benches, Threat

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• The next time you see one of those squirrels go near my putting green, take a gun and shoot it

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Stupid, Gun, Presidential

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• Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours. Rabbits don't fly. Eagles don't swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don't have feathers. Stop comparing. There's plenty of room in the forest.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Father, Eagles, Ducks

  Charles R. Swindoll (1979). “Standing Out: Being Real in an Unreal World”, Multnomah

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• Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.

  Ken Kesey

  Pieces, Literature, Intricate

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• So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees.

  John Muir

  Fall, Angel, Sunshine

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• In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Winter, Nuts

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.74, New York Review of Books

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• The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want.

  Scott Adams

  Moving, Home, House

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• There's got to be a moment when that baby [flying] squirrel looks from the end of one branch to the tree six feet away and thinks twice about making a leap. Falling in love is no different; it's the moment that we close our eyes and throw away everything that seems reasonable and hope to God there's someone or something waiting to catch us on the other side.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Falling In Love, Eye

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