"The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the June woods is in itself proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa."

-- Aldo Leopold

#Real Quotes #Animal Quotes #June Quotes

“The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.”
“The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned.”
“A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.”
“People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak.”
“If I were invisible I'd go to the amusement park~”
“Fortunately for me, I did not take any science classes in college,”
“Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.”

Source : Radclyffe Hall (1959). “Miss Ogilvy finds herself”
“How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation?”

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