Living Species

Famous quotes containing the words living and/or species:

“The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)

“There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)