Proverbs and Sayings, in A World of Turtles, edited by Gregory McNamee and Luis Alberto Urrea
A piece of wood always floats near a blind tortoise just when it is need of help. Japanese
Proverbs and Sayings, in A World of Turtles, edited by Gregory McNamee and Luis Alberto Urrea A turtle lays a thousand eggs without anyone's knowing it; a hen lays one egg and the whole town hears. Malay
Proverbs and Sayings, in A World of Turtles, edited by Gregory McNamee and Luis Alberto Urrea At certain times of the year, huge females wander about the land, looking for egg-laying sites and terrorizing the community.
Tortuga, Luis Alberto Urrea, in A World of Turtles, edited by Gregory McNamee and Luis Alberto Urrea Then they are so well-behaved; can be taken up and brought home in your pocket, and make no unseemly efforts to escape.
An Irresistible Necessity for Turtles, adapted from The Journals, Henry David Thoreau, in A World of Turtles, edited by Gregory McNamee and Luis Alberto Urrea We could not see down into the hole, only the legs alternately reaching down, and a rim of excavated sand that was slowly growingup behind the rim of the turtle's shell. I was later to learn that the digging action, once begun, is as involuntary as the contractions of a mammal giving birth, and even a turtle missing one hind leg will dig in the same fashion, thrusting down first with the good leg, then with the amputated stump, until the job is done.
Snapper, Franklin Burroughs, in A World of Turtles, edited by Gregory McNamee and Luis Alberto Urrea |
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