Famous quotes containing the words flight, attendant and/or call:
“In all her products, Nature only develops her simplest germs. One would say that it was no great stretch of invention to create birds. The hawk which now takes his flight over the top of the wood was at first, perchance, only a leaf which fluttered in its aisles. From rustling leaves she came in the course of ages to the loftier flight and clear carol of the bird.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Soon, with a noise like tambourines,
Came her attendant Byzantines.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)