Famous quotes containing the words flowering and/or species:
“All the charm of all the Muses
often flowering in a lonely word;”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and bodies. The poor beasts here are pursued and run down by much greater beasts than themselves; and the true British fox-hunter is most undoubtedly a species appropriated and peculiar to this country, which no other part of the globe produces.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)