Wild geese fly south, creaking like anguished hinges; along the riverbank the candles of the sumacs burn dull red. It's the first week of October. Season of woolen garments taken out of mothballs; of nocturnal mists and dew and slippery front steps, and late-blooming slugs; of snapdragons having one last fling; of those frilly ornamental pink-and-purple cabbages that never used to exist, but are all over everywhere now.
Quotes about slugs (13 Quotes)
If fate is the law, then is fate also subject to that law? At some point we cannot escape naming responsibility. It's in our nature. Sometimes I think we are all like that myopic coiner at his press, taking the blind slugs one by one from the tray, all of us bent so jealously at our work, determined that not even chaos be outside of our own making.
We're not a bunch of slugs. We're elite players who have been in Europe for a long time now.
What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place.
Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit, the veteran of many seasons has learned to expect slugs, mildew, and frost.
It's a disappointing result from the point of view of my initial idea. But at least the result will be the great green slugs will at last be gone.
All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring birds are on the wing And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring And I the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
Early in April, as I was vigorously hoeing in a corner, I unearthed a huge toad, to my perfect delight and satisfaction he had lived all winter, he had doubtless fed on slugs all the autumn. I could have kissed him on the spot.
I think coughing up slugs was quite hard. Ron has a scene where he has to cough up these giant slugs.
We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.
We fired water slugs out of the torpedo tubes. You get to feel what it's like when we actually launch torpedoes.
Then seek your job with thankfulness and work till further orders, If it's only netting strawberries or killing slugs on borders And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.
Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.