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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury. Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.

When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it's the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down.