Western Fence Lizard

While lizards certainly aren't a symbol of glamour with their dull brown dry skin and habits of skulking under dead branches and leaves, I enjoy finding them nonetheless. Lizards are a symbol of homebody habits; most lizards never venture more than a few hundred feet from where they start their lives.

Here is an excerpt of a poem, "The Lizard" by Carmen Bernos De Gasztold and translated by Rumer Godden, with a theme of lizard homes:

please put me
a swift arrow
on a sun-baked wall:
a wall full of cracks,
of mossy havens,
quiet caves of shadow
and hiding places...

The Anasazi Native Americans depicted lizards in their rock art created in the period from 900 to 1300 A.D.