(Turtles can fly means to accomplish what is assumed to be impossible by conventional thinking. Turtles can fly in water.
Slow heavy crawling creatures can fly. Anyone can fly!)
“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christs disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.”
(Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories)
To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.
(Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).)
