“It did not take Man long-probably not more than a hundred centuries-to discover that all the animals except the dog were impossible around the house. One has but to spend a few days with an aardvark or llama, command a water buffalo to sit up and beg or try to housebreak a moose, to perceive how wisely Man set about his process of elimination and selection.” MenTryingLongHouseProcessWaterAnimalImpossibleCenturyDogHundredCommandPerceiveSelectionEliminationBuffaloMooseLlamasWater Buffalo Book:James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
“Turbulence.” This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along, and there will be an enormous, shuddering WHUMP, and clearly the plane has rammed into an airborne object at least the size of a water buffalo, and the pilot will say, “Folks, we're encountering a little turbulence.” Meanwhile they are up there in the cockpit trying desperately to clean water-buffalo organs off the windshield.” TryingLittlesWaterObjectsCleanFolksSizeStrikesFlyingEnormousPlanesPilotsOrgansBuffaloClean WaterTurbulenceAirborneShudderingCockpitWater Buffalo Author:Dave Barry
“Either the kid was naturally hyper or he was hopped up on enough caffeine to give a heart attack to a water buffalo.” GivingHeartEnoughKidsWaterCaffeineHyperHeart AttackBuffaloWater Buffalo Author:Rick Riordan
“This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will bring a water buffalo to its knees.” IfsTwoBigsActionWaterFatsKneesThrownSarcasticBuffaloMonsoonsWater Buffalo Author:Nancy Banks-Smith
“Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.” IfsThinkingBodyBirthHabitYour BodyPregnancyPositivelyChildbirthMidwifeThink PositivelyMooseMidwiferyWater Buffalo Author:Ina May Gaskin
“At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the Water Buffalo? is a splendid story of comradeship in a time and place of constant peril, but it's Babbs's irrepressible exuberance and vast, affectionate good humor that make the story go. I love this novel.” YearsStoriesLastsAmericaWaterNovelShotsConstantFiftyPrintPerilSplendidAffectionateBuffaloExuberanceGood HumorComradeshipIrrepressibleWater Buffalo Author:Ed McClanahan
“Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth as well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.” IfsThinkingGivingHumansWellsBodyRememberWaterBirthHabitFemaleMachinesCreatorYour BodyPregnancyLionsElephantsMechanicPositivelyCarelessChildbirthLemonsGiving BirthBuffaloFemale BodyMidwifeThink PositivelyMooseMidwiferyWater Buffalo Author:Ina May Gaskin
“The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse, donkey, elephant, camel, water buffalo, ox, yak - is an herbivore... whose huge muscles were built from plant protein, and whose strong bones got that way, and stayed that way, from grazing on grass and eating other vegetables.” WayEarthStrongWaterAnimalHugeCreaturesEatingBuiltHorsePlantBonesHandleGrassMusclesStrongestVegetablesElephantsProteinCamelsDonkeyBuffaloGrazingEnlistedYaksWater Buffalo Author:Victoria Moran
“The Creator is not a careless mechanic.” BirthCreatorPregnancyMechanicCarelessChildbirthMidwifeMooseMidwiferyWater Buffalo Book:Ina May's Guide to Childbirth Source: Ina May's Guide to Childbirth