Burrowing Animals Quotes

The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelievably disgusting. And the star-nosed mole is also. It looks like it snorted a firecracker. They live way underground, and to get footage of them is basically impossible.

The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot.

Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.

The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.

I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.

The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.

Rabbits are a foolish people. They do not fight except with their own kind, nor use their paws except for feet, and appear to have no reason for existence but to furnish meals for meat-eaters. In flight they seem to rebound from the earth of their own elasticity, but keep a sober pace going to the spring. It is the young watercress that tempts them and the pleasures of society, for they seldom drink.

I want to be a mouse in a mousehole.

All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole.