• Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
  - James Bryant Conant

• Sleepy turtles never catch up with the sunrise.
  - Jamaican Proverb

• Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
  - Alex Haley

• Trusting in wealth is like looking for feathers on turtles.
  - Senegalese Proverb

• All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle.
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

This post is part of Turtle Blogathon 2009, where we stayed up for 24-straight-hours to blog about turtles. Posts written during the Turtle Blogathon are filed in the Turtle Blogathon 2009 category.

• Nesting habitats
• Do turtles live in groups? How do they communicate among themselves?
• Did you know that…
• Are there damages to the turtles if barnacles are not removed?
• Shell patterns and identification