Michelle Dean Quotes

A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.

A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.

People who don't like cats haven't been around them. There's the old joke: dogs have masters, cats have staff.

You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

If a woman has one cat, it will invariably turn into 20.

....there are three prerequisites to going out into the world to walk for pleasure. One must have free time, a place to go, and a body unhindered by illness or social restraints.

In my walks I would fain return to my senses.

She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.

Dying - you can't do that to a cat.

Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.

it's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful

I like to set myself a new adventure challenge at least once or twice a year because I love that side of my life. I love getting fit and training for it.

When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.

Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.

Let your walks now be a little more adventurous.

Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.

Tell him I took the cat

I want to be a person that isn't surrounded by their mail and their cat.

There are many different ways now to experience nature. Get out there and hike.

You know how it is with cats: They don't really have owners, they have staff.

The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you.

From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time in such outside activities as hiking, walking, fishing, beach play, and gardening, according to a study by Sandra Hofferth at the University of Maryland.

You always ought to have tom cats arranged, you know - it makes 'em more companionable.

You haven't lived until you've lived with a cat.