It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could co...nscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A squirrel leaping from bough to bough, and making the wood but one wide tree for his pleasure, fills the eye not less than a lion...,--is beautiful, self-sufficing, and stands then and there for nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Commit a crime and the world is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as revea...ls in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishne...ss or disgrace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All that blesses the step of the antelope all the grace a giraffe lifts to the highest leaves... all steadfastness and pleasant gazing, alien to ennui, dwell secretly behind man's misery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at different ...periods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If it were not for the rivers (and he might go round their heads), a squirrel could here travel thus the whole breadth of the coun...try.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »