Spring is the most wonderful, because she has
not to cover a clean bare field with new leaves and
flowers, but to drive before her and to put away the
hanging-on, over-surviving raffle of half-green things
which the gentle winter has suffered to live, and to
make the partly dressed, stale earth feel new and
young once more. And this she […]

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…all the Jungle was his friend, for all the Jungle was afraid of him.

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From the “ROAD-SONG OF THE BANDAR-LOG”

Here we sit in a branchy row,
Thinking of beautiful things we know;
Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do,
All complete, in a minute or two–
Something noble and wise and good,
Done by merely wishing we could.
We’ve forgotten, but–never mind,
[…]

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One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores. There is no nagging afterwards.

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Sahi [the porcupine] is full of stories half heard and very badly told.

I know people link like this, but I’ve always associated them with some kind of rodent–like a weasal but more pathetic than malicious.

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Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance

Reminds me of Proverbs 19:18.

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