Brown Snake

Brown snake is the common name given to a number of very different species of snakes:

  • The genus Pseudonaja, Australian brown snakes
  • The genus Storeria, North American brown snakes
  • The species Elapognathus minor, the Australian short-nosed, or little brown, snake
  • The species Pseudechis australis, the Australian mulga, or king brown, snake

Famous quotes containing the words brown and/or snake:

    “The river’s tent is broken; the last fingers of leaf
    Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind
    Crosses the brown land, unheard. The nymphs are departed.
    Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.
    The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
    Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends
    Or other testimony of summer nights.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. Likewise those spirits who are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be spirits.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)