To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every…

The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned,…

— Ridley Pearson

It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As I glided further into the dusty mollusk volumes, I discovered that gastropods - which account for 80 percent of all mollusks - are…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

The Mollusks—generous hosts when they weren’t trying to kill you.

— Dave Barry

I've always been so interested in both the visual beauty of mollusks and the tactile feel of them. As a kid, I collected them…

— Anthony Doerr

I'm interested in other animals too though. There's the slug in "Mollusks", and I wrote a story about bees and one about a cat…

— Arthur Bradford

We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. ……

— Murray Bookchin

Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony…

— Oriana Fallaci

...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately…

— Edward Forbes

If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant…

— Lewis Thomas

The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys…

— Charles Baudelaire

What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or baffle us…

— Steven Pinker

Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden yellow, some grey pink…

— Kuki Gallmann

Leonard Aster thanked Fighting Prawn and the Mollusk tribe for their hospitality. “You mean,” said Fighting Prawn, “for not killing you?” “Yes,” said Leonard.…

— Dave Barry