Animal Collecting Mission

Famous quotes containing the words animal, collecting and/or mission:

    “The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    “What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?”
    —Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

    “The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)