Beast

Famous quotes containing the word beast:

“If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Underwater eyes, an eel’s
Oil of water body, neither fish nor beast is the otter:”
—Ted Hughes (b. 1930)

“The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth, his ears understand the language of beast and bird, and the sense of the wind; and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him. But that is not our science.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)