Calm Quote by Munia Khan

“The life of a snail is as full of tasty food, comfortable beds of sorts, and a mix of pleasant and not-so-pleasant adventures as…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“The snail pushes through a green night, for the grass is heavy with water and meets over the bright path he makes, where rain…

— Thom Gunn

“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

“As the snail's world grew more familiar, my own human world became less so; my species was so large, so rushed, and so confusing.”

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail....the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.”

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“Snails do not despair for having short legs, but rejoice for being able to travel long distances in spite of them.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Edwin Way Teale

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man…

— Epictetus

“I wrote to one of my doctors: I could never have guessed what would get me through this past year - a woodland snail…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“A sense of panic ensued, but panic is like fresh air. The world falls out from under us and we fly, we float, we…

— Gretel Ehrlich

I can perform the life of the snail and be moving.

— Mary Woronov

“Placidity and order and everything in its place, with a decorous and sanctioned violence going on underneath everything, like a heavy, brutal shoe tapping…

— Margaret Atwood