Famous quotes containing the words living and/or species:
“Barely tolerated, living on the margin
In our technological society, we were always having to be rescued
On the brink of destruction....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the “very best society” that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of “dressing” to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)