Cattle/species

Famous quotes containing the words cattle and/or species:

“Young steers become old cattle from that day,
Electric limits to their widest senses.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)