Bird Species

Famous quotes containing the words bird and/or species:

    “All your lovely words are spoken.
    Once the ivory box is broken,
    Beats the golden bird no more.”
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    “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)