Nature In Focus

“Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment—a little makes the way of the best happiness.”

—Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844–1900)

“If this creature is a murderer, then so are we all. This snake has killed one British soldier; we have killed many. This is not murder, gentlemen. This is war.”

—Plea by an American soldier for the life of a ...

“Tortoises only make progress when they stick their necks out.”

—African proverb

“The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks
Which practically conceal its sex.
I think it clever of the turtle
In such a fix to be so fertile.” 

—Ogden Nash

“I would not enter in my list of friends,
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
An inadvertent step may crush the snail
That crawls at evening in the public path,
But he has the humanity, forewarned,
Will ...