The bluebird carries the sky on his back. - Henry David Thoreau
“Well, it may be humorous to you, but it’s a very serious matter to the squirrels.” - Lisa Kleypas
I am the Lizard King. I can do anything! - Jim Morrison
The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak. - Edward Abbey
A fox is subtlety itself. — Aristophanes
Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
This squirrel followed me around Point Lobos, probably hoping I would have a tasty morsel for him. He followed me until I stopped to take his picture and then he ran off; he decided I had no peanuts in my camera bag.
The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is not what you want to find lurking in your vegetable garden. I am going to get a few chickens.
“Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.” - Bertrand Russell
Maybe not a critter in the usual definition, but it sure looks like a bird’s head to me.
“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” ~Thoreau
“But real life is only one kind of life – There is also the life of the Imagination.” - E. B. White
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. - Henry David Thoreau
This photograph was pure luck; I never have my camera on motor-drive. So to capture the moment of touch down with one claw and wings folded up, that’s pure luck. But there is something to be said for being prepared.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. - Henri Cartier-Bresson
Watching the gulls run through the cloud of alkali flies at Mono Lake collecting lunch is amusing to watch. This guy seemed content to just let the flies come to him.
I was a rolling and a-strolling, reeling with the feeling
Moving and a-groovin', splishing and a-splashing. – Bobby Darin
“I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.” - Nicole Kidman
“Grooming is the secret of real elegance. The best clothes, the most wonderful jewels, the most glamorous beauty don't count without good grooming.” - Christian Dior
“All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.” - Claude Monet
The male House Finch when courting will offer the female choice tasty morsels.
Birds of a feather flock together.