Cattle/population

Famous quotes containing the words cattle and/or population:

“Young steers become old cattle from that day,
Electric limits to their widest senses.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)