Accounts Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even the most…

— Stefan Zweig

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

“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

To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is…

— Russell Sherman

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