Hedgehogs Quotes

“Bluestar's coming on patrol? Watch out for flying hedgehogs!”
― -Erin Hunter Cloudpaw A Dangerous Path Warriors 5

“Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their movement and their death.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“There was something very odd about the carpet this morning… More hedgehogs? Many more hedgehogs? Positively a lake of hedgehogs?”
― Robin McKinley, Rose Daughter

“Being clever they did not care for animals. One man had never seen a hedgehog. ~from The Longest Journey”
― E.M. Forster

“»Der Igel ist ein fürchterliches Geschöpf«, rief Faline. »Voll großer Stacheln am ganzen Körper . . . und dazu noch sehr böse!«
»Glaubst du wirklich, daß er böse ist?« fragte Gobo. »Er tut doch niemandem etwas zuleide.«
»So?« erwiderte Faline schnell, »hat er dich vielleicht nicht gestochen?«
»Ach, das war nur, weil ich mit ihm reden wollte«, wendete Gobo ein, »und nur ein kleines bißchen. Es hat nicht sehr weh getan.«
Bambi wandte sich an Gobo: »Warum wollte er denn nicht, daß du mit ihm redest?«
»Er will mit niemandem reden«, mengte sich Faline ein. »Sowie man nur in seine Nähe kommt, rollt er sich zusammen, und dann siehst du von allen Seiten nur seine Stacheln. Unsere Mutter sagt, er ist so einer, der mit der Welt nichts zu tun haben will.«
Gobo meinte: »Vielleicht fürchtet er sich nur.«
Aber Faline verstand das besser: »Die Mutter sagt, mit so jemandem soll man sich gar nicht einlassen.«”
― Felix Salten, Bambi: Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde

“The wet skeletons of two young hedgehogs still lay on the floor of Hell.”
― Josef Winkler, When the Time Comes

“O most wondrous misshapen biddy of the m'rning, humming at which hour t shouldst cluck! Thou dost not harbour honesty any m're than a hedgehog is a splint'r'd prison f'r fleas.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Everyone loves pill-bugs. They're the insect version of hedgehogs.

(in Elatsoe)”
― Darcy Little Badger

“Everyone loves pill-bugs. They're the insect version of hedgehogs.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe

“Hedgehogs are easy to help. A little food left out at night and some water during hot dry periods mean the stark difference between life and death. A simple pile of logs and clippings in a quiet corner makes a comfortable home. So many of these things are small in themselves but combine to be a help of mighty proportions to our dwindling population of hedgehogs.”
― Pam Ayres, The Last Hedgehog

“Hedgehogs— at least the hedgehogs of Wonderland— were not difficult to train. I had only needed to let them sniff the Hatter’s assortment of tea leaves and tea flowers a few times a day, rewarding them with apple slices when they trundled up to the jars of their own accord, before they were marching off into the woods to gather the teas themselves.
I had at first thought to show them where to go, but I had quickly found that the little creatures could sniff out tea much better than I could. Some would vanish for days at a time, returning from unknown corners of the Tulgey Wood or the Queen’s gardens with unusual delicacies speared on their backs. The poor things seemed eager to prove themselves, and no wonder, since the only life they had known before was being walloped back and forth by flamingos all day.”
― Heather Fawcett, Wondrous