#turtle

I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#back #everything #gone #happier #houses

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell. ↗

— Bill Copeland

#ease #like #own #shell #try

And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#look #movie #something #turtle #you

Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs. ↗

— Brian P. Cleary

#dove #finds #hers #kind #our

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. ↗

— James Bryant Conant

#his #makes #neck #only #out

I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#bad taste #collar #employee #felt #hut

All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle. ↗

— John Hersey

#clock #cursed #general #hulk #looking

Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#bad luck #ball #balls #bounce #bouncing

I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles. ↗

— Amy Weber

#brought #everything #foxes #home #i

People have been on earth in our present form for only about 100,000 years, and in so many ways we’re still ironing out our kinks. These turtles we’ve been traveling with, they outrank us in longevity, having earned three more zeros than we. They’ve got one hundred million years of success on their resume, and they’ve learned something about how to survive in the world. And this, I think, is part of it: they have settled upon peaceful career paths, with a stable rhythm. If humans could survive another one hundred million years, I expect we would no longer find ourselves riding bulls. It’s not so much that I think animals have rights; it’s more that I believe humans have hearts and minds- though I’ve yet to see consistent, convincing proof of either. Turtles may seem to lack sense, but they don’t do senseless things. They’re not terribly energetic, yet they do not waste energy… turtles cannot consider what might happen yet nothing turtles do threatens anyone’s future. Turtles don’t think about the next generation, but they risk and provide all they can to ensure that there will be one. Meanwhile, we profess to love our own offspring above all else, yet above all else it is they from whom we daily steal. We cannot learn to be more like turtles, but from turtles we could learn to be more human. That is the wisdom carried within one hundred million years of survival. What turtles could learn from us, I can’t quite imagine. ↗

— Carl Safina

#nature #peace #turtles #imagination