Campbell Island Sheep

Campbell Island sheep are a feral breed of domestic sheep formerly found on Campbell Island, New Zealand.

Famous quotes containing the words campbell, island and/or sheep:

    Few, few shall part, where many meet!
    The snow shall be their winding sheet,
    And every turf, beneath their feet,
    Shall be a soldier’s sepulchre.
    —Thomas Campbell (1774–1844)

    When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the “big canoe” of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow’st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here’s three on’s are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)