Attached Gills

Famous quotes containing the words attached and/or gills:

    I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antæus. But why should I raise them? Only Heaven knows.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    his gills were breathing in
    the terrible oxygen
    Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)