Thursday, December 30, 2010

All The Thoughts of A Turtle

Turtles always strike me as devastatingly serious. If turtles could talk, I'd believe everything they said.
~ Erin O'Brien

Snapping Turtle
By Will Sillin

From Old French Fairy Tales
"There were three months passing through the forest."
Illustration by Virginia Frances Sterret

This photo was taken by Sarah, but I'm not sure who the sculptor is

An illustration from The Mighty Orinoco by Jules Verne
Drawn by Tony George Roux

The Hare and the Tortoise
By Arthur Rackham

Charmeur de Tortues
by L. Crépon

Tribal Turtle
by Holly Kitaura

The title of this post comes from the Ralph Waldo Emerson quote:
All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle.

Links:
* To learn about turtles and how to help them, check out these links.
* Video of a turtle being drawn
* This turtle plate from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur would make a nice poster. In English, the title of the book is Art Forms of Nature. It's quite a beautiful resource.

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4 comments:

  1. BenDecember 30, 2010 at 8:31 AM

    I like the turtle pictures!

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  2. M PaxDecember 30, 2010 at 5:10 PM

    A tortoise charmer! What a creative idea ... :D

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  3. 16-Lane RacewayDecember 31, 2010 at 10:33 AM

    Great turtle art. Especially loved the Tribal Tattoo Turtle.

    Also wondered about the old French Fairy Tale where it took them three months to go through the forest. Must be a reason for her to travel on a turtle!

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  4. TabathaJanuary 1, 2011 at 5:42 AM

    I wondered about the French fairy tale, too. Was she under a spell so she couldn't walk? Would touching the ground be disastrous?

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