For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

Move at a snail's pace or walk with the speed of a turtle or run like a rabbit! Just move; forget about the speed…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

— Iris Murdoch

The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.

— Steve Prefontaine

Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can…

— Ray Dalio

The magic is in the breaking the cycle of response by observing something in nature, something a close to you as your breath.

— Anonymous

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

— Charles Spurgeon

Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.

— George Carlin

“I wanted to be something else, anything else. I could be a snail on a leaf, or the leaf itself. I could be a…

— Burbuqe Raufi

“The snail had been a true mentor; its tiny existence had sustained me. Late one winter night I wrote in my journal: A last…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.

— Mason Cooley

People often say that I have a child's eye. For example, I stare at ants gathering around sugar, or when I seek shelter from…

— Rinko Kawauchi

I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of…

— Marlon Brando

It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a…

— Celia Thaxter

I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the…

— Francis Bacon

Of course, when we got home, we found that Dagda had peed on my down comforter. He had also eaten part of Mom's maidenhair…

— Cate Tiernan