“The woman who was saving iguanas opened the cage of the newest arrival and asked if I wanted to hold him. She showed me how to slip my forearm under his scaly belly and bring him to my chest, not unlike soothing a colicky baby, though the iguana showed no distress and breathed evenly against my body, not cold, not warm, as if he didn’t mind being suspended in a stranger’s arms, as if nothing could surprise him in the tumble of the world he’d been swept up into. The iguana was strapped into a thin black harness that made him look like a leatherman from the Castro, an old queer with spiked hair and his wrinkled dewlap. I’d had a bad day, well really a bad year, and the one before that wasn’t good either. My child wasn’t talking to me and I’d stopped talking to everyone else. The iguana was still as a monk in prayer, all that moved were his ruched eyelids which opened and closed over his orange eyes. His chest filled and emptied with the dry hot air we shared. I thought to myself, even this is something.” PoetryHopeNaturePoemComfortWildlifeIguanas Author:Ellen Bass
“Jessica also supplied chopped fruits and vegetables to the lounge of lizards in the garden. She’d read that amusing expression on YucatanLiving.com. A group of lizards was called a lounge. So, she supposed, a group of lizards hanging around could be thought of as a lounge of lizards lounging in a lizard lounge. Oh-kay then, she really was spending way too much time by herself. Tormenta Isla Book #3 of Isla Mujeres Mystery series.” MexicoMurder MysteryLizardsBeach ReadIguanasIsland In Paradise Book:Tormenta Isla Source: Tormenta Isla
“I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'” LightWantedRecordsBandStoresCoffeeBossSadisticRecord StoresIguanas Author:Iggy Pop
“I have this awareness that the more dynamic the situation is, the more on guard I need to be that the dynamic isn't controlling the situation. I found that myself in the Galapagos. For the first time in my life I was around very exotic animals, colorful, beautiful, and immediately present, all around. Birds, turtles, iguanas, seals. I was being seduced by their exoticism, I was taking pictures.The pictures weren't well lit, there was no moment in play, there was no depth to the pictures. I was just gawking with my camera at something I'd never seen before.” NeedsFirstsWellsPlayMomentsBeautifulFoundAnimalSituationAwarenessBirdFirst TimeCamerasDepthLitExoticSealsColorfulTurtlesTaking PicturesIguanasExotic Animals Author:Sam Abell
“Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.” TreePalmsMickeyPalm TreesIguanas Author:Carl Hiaasen
“Frank tugged again with no luck. Even Hazel was trying not to laugh. Frank grimaced with concentration. Suddenly, he disappeared. On the deck where he’d been standing, a green iguana crouched next to an empty set of Chinese handcuffs. “Well done, Frank Zhang,” Leo said dryly, doing his impression of Chiron the centaur. “That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.” PeopleTryingWellsSaidDoneTurnsNextLaughingBeatsStandingEmptyLuckGreenImpressionChineseConcentrationFrankDeckWell DoneAthenaOlympusHandcuffsMark Of AthenaFrank ZhangCentaursIguanas Author:Rick Riordan
“The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much, or the environment would be even worse than it is already.” PeopleLittlesWould BeThreeLibertyEnvironmentChickensThank GodHippieSentimentalityDipBlakeBongsIguanas Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.” PeopleTurnsBeatsChineseOlympusHandcuffsMark Of AthenaFrank ZhangIguanas Author:Rick Riordan
“Know your load. That's rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front of me one at a time. I'm not going to be the schmuck who shows up in Orlando twobirds short of a dinner party....I know I'm pulling out of Houston with exactly forty-two Gentoo penguins, seventeen Jamaican land iguanas, four tuataras from New Zealand, and a pair of rare, civet-like mammals called linsangs. No more, no less.” KnowsTwoShowsPartyFourLandFrontsBirdDinnerFortyPairsLoadPullingSeventeenNew ZealandHoustonDinner PartyMammalsPenguinsOrlandoJamaicansSchmucksIguanas Author:Jacob M. Appel