Perch/species

Famous quotes containing the words perch and/or species:

“Some may know what they seek in school and church,
And why they seek it there; for what I search
I must go measuring stone walls, perch on perch....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war.... The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)