Snake Behavior Quotes

Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers.

One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.

When the snakes out in that field begin to realize that if one of their members get out of line, it's going to be detrimental to all of them, they'll keep that, perhaps they'll then take the necessary steps to keep their fellow snakes away from my chickens or away from my children if the responsibility is placed upon them.

Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.

The asp doth on his feeder feed.

Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike...If it can it will get out of the way, and only coils up in its attitude of defence when it believes that it is actually menaced.

Luckily there were no venomous snakes around Hoosick, N.Y., so I amassed quite a collection of milk snakes, garters, ribbons and ring-necked snakes.

I wanna see a snake eat spaghetti.

The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.

When you've been around a snake long enough, you learn how to crawl in the dirt.

When most people get drunk, they see snakes. But, when snakes get drunk, they see Jake Roberts!

I've had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They'll tell you when they're grumpy. They'll tell you when they're okay.

I've worked with pythons and such in a couple of movies, and I had to wrangle around, but I was okay. Still, if I'm out in the country or something, I'm still spooked by them.

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

Most creatures in nature die consciously. Cobras, for instance, choose a particular place on a particular branch of the tree. Many a times, I would try to force-feed them out of my misplaced compassion, but they would just puke and go back to sit on the same branch.