Bush Stone Curlew

Famous quotes containing the words bush, stone and/or curlew:

“Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

“Let these memorials of built stone music’s
enduring instrument, of many centuries of
patient cultivation of the earth, of English
verse ...”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“Now curlew cry me down to kiss the mouths of their dust.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)