Nature does all her big and little jobs without making any force; the earth goes around the sun, the moon changes, the eclipses, and the polliwog, silently and taillessly, becomes a frog, but man can't even deliver a small-sized 4th of July oration without knocking down a mountain or two, and taring up three or four primeval forests by the bleeding roots.


Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

Josh Billings Quotes

Nature does all her big and little jobs without making any force; the earth goes around the sun, the moon changes, the eclipses, and the polliwog,...

Nature does all her big and little jobs without making any force; the earth goes around the sun, the moon changes, the eclipses, and the polliwog,...

Nature does all her big and little jobs without making any force; the earth goes around the sun, the moon changes, the eclipses, and the polliwog,...

Nature does all her big and little jobs without making any force; the earth goes around the sun, the moon changes, the eclipses, and the polliwog,...