Megan Storey

“A U.S. Department of Agriculture's snail-farming bulletin notes that confined snails may form an aggregate, their combined strength and skills resulting in a breakout. I thought of hundreds of snails packed densely
into shipping crates, en route to a restaurant where escargots grace the menu and boiling water awaits. With one purpose in mind, they join forces, push up with their muscular heads against the top of the crate, and pop the lid right off, gliding slowly but steadily toward freedom.”
― Elisabeth Tova Bailey, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

“The French poet Jacques Prévert wrote the "Song of the Snails on Their Way to a Funeral" about two snails that plan to attend a service for an autumn leaf that has fallen to the ground. They travel toward their destination, and when they finally arrive for the funeral, spring has come and all is happy again.”
― Elisabeth Tova Bailey, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

“One spring, in a rain shower, I dug up all my tulips in full bloom and wandered around the yard holding them by their two-foot necks, with the bulb and roots dangling down and the tulip flowers staring up at me with their big Cyclops-like eyes. I decided, based on color, just where to relocate each one. If you move plants in the rain, they hardly even know it, and they did just fine. Today is a perfect snail-letting-go day.”
― Elisabeth Tova Bailey, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

“It seemed far more sensible to belong to a species that had evolved natural tooth replacement than to belong to one that had developed the dental profession.”
― Elisabeth Tova Bailey, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating