Totem Animal

Famous quotes containing the words totem and/or animal:

“Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“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)