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  • I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles. -- Amy Weber
  • My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels. -- Eric Roberts
  • Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. -- Robert Burton
  • I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house. -- Mike Farrell
  • 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
  • People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy. -- Demetri Martin
  • I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman'. -- Mary J. Blige
  • A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit! -- Sarah Jessica Parker
  • The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • It's easy to smile when you have a squirrel's intellect. -- Dylan Moran
  • Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate. -- Ken Kesey
  • There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb. -- George W. Bush
  • Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. -- Millicent Fenwick
  • I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day. -- Emily Procter
  • A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa. -- Mark Zuckerberg
  • 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
  • I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain. -- Jessica Biel
  • 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
  • If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. -- George Eliot
  • I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun! -- Emily Dickinson
  • And thus flowed the current of life. The seeds of the silverbell were converted into squirrel; and squirrels were converted into foxes. Everything edible, from mice and chipmunks to roots and berries and apples was converted into bear. And bear and his tracks are converted into wonder and adventure for man. -- Harvey Broome
  • The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but last fruits also. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Squirrels are just rats with good publicity -- Garrison Wynn
  • The Pleading of the Summer - That other Prank - of Snow - That Cushions Mystery with Tulle, For fear the Squirrels - know. -- Emily Dickinson
  • Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans. -- James Lee
  • 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
  • I like squirrels. They're so adventurous. -- Gabby Douglas
  • I go to Union Square Park, mostly to take care of squirrels. -- Bernhard Goetz
  • If you like affection, then about one in three squirrels makes an excellent companion. -- Bernhard Goetz
  • I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers. -- Andre Leon Talley
  • How comedic are squirrels? We don't have squirrels in Australia. The first time I saw a squirrel was at a meeting at Disney. -- Liam Hemsworth
  • It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day. -- Douglas Coupland
  • Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. -- Robert Burton
  • I don't have my own garden; we're on shale and in the woods. And if I did have a garden, the deer and chipmunks and squirrels and bears would eat everything anyway. -- Ruth Reichl
  • All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock. -- Cy Young
  • I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper, I was a taxidermist. -- Gene Pitney
  • When one's dead, one's dead... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad? -- Tove Jansson
  • 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
  • In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer. -- Barbara Mandrell
  • I don't think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet contains a lot of videos of squirrels riding skateboards, but it can also be a place that facilitates big conversations about books. -- John Green
  • I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural. -- Moby
  • Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would supplement all that with whatever we could kill or catch. Whether we'd kill squirrels, deer, duck, or caught catfish or brim, that was what went on the table. -- Si Robertson
  • The thought of eating rabbit and squirrels doesn't appeal to me. And that was on our table quite often as a kid. In your uppity restaurants, they serve a lot of rabbit. But I just can't help but think of Peter. And deer, I can't go there, because of Bambi. -- Paula Deen
  • So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles. -- Dave Matthews
  • I like squirrels. Theyre so adventurous. -- Gabby Douglas
  • Policemen, like red squirrels, must be protected. -- Joe Orton
  • The steeples swam in amethyst, the news like squirrels swam. -- Emily Dickinson
  • Red squirrels... you don't see many of them since they became extinct. -- Michael Aspel
  • The squirrels on campus were beyond domestic; they were practically domestically abusive. -- Rainbow Rowell
  • I wouldn't trust Newcastle's back five to protect my garden gnomes from squirrels. -- Jonathan Pearce
  • the sex even in serious pornography has less singularity than the mating of squirrels. -- Storm Jameson
  • The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn't make a decision. -- John C. Maxwell
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  • Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels. -- John Muir
  • The next time you see one of those squirrels go near my putting green, take a gun and shoot it -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Small birds throw seeds out of the feeder; large birds pick them up off the ground, but the squirrels try to muscle in. -- Lilian Jackson Braun
  • When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it is like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around. -- Nick Hanauer
  • People look at me like I'm a little strange, when I go around talking to squirrels and rabbits and stuff. That's ok. That's just ok. -- Bob Ross
  • I have never been able to entertain a God-idea which was not integrally related to the fact of chipmunks, squirrels, hippopotamuses, galaxies, and light years. -- Joseph Sittler
  • I don't really think of most non-English as people, more or less indigenous squirrels that I fancy to kick around with my snakeskin French Persian Boots -- Thom Yorke
  • Man makes very much such a nest for his domestic animals, of withered grass and fodder, as the squirrels and many other wild creatures do for themselves. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • The mammalian brain evolved exquisite place memory because that was essential for survival. This is why squirrels have such a good memory for where they buried their nuts. -- Daniel Levitin
  • 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
  • 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
  • The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one. -- Lee Child
  • Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden-in all the places. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational. -- Thomas M. Disch
  • Whenever he looks at me with those big brown eyes, I feel like giving him a nut,â? she said. She even started calling the squirrels running around in the park Mr. Whitmans. -- Kerstin Gier
  • Nature is our friend - trees, squirrels, grass, fields, meadows, oceans - without people. Hike. Walk. Stroll. Bike. Swim. Be in a still place and feel eternity. Have a great time. Just feel it. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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