Sheep/health

Famous quotes containing the words sheep and/or health:

“Better to repair the pen after the sheep have escaped than not at all.”
—Chinese proverb.

“O how can it be that the ground itself does not sicken?
How can you be alive you growths of spring?
How can you furnish health you blood of herbs, roots, orchards, grain?
Are they not continually putting distemper’d corpses within you?
Is not every continent work’d over and over with sour dead?”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)