Independent Animal Collecting

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

    “Milton’s the prince of poets—so we say;
    A little heavy, but no less divine:
    An independent being in his day—”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land, and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet, from seaweed to a sailor’s yarn, or a fish story. In this element the animal and vegetable kingdoms meet and are strangely mingled.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)