Doyle Owl

Famous quotes containing the words doyle and/or owl:

    Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    For sounds in winter nights, and often in winter days, I heard the forlorn but melodious note of a hooting owl indefinitely far; such a sound as the frozen earth would yield if struck with a suitable plectrum, the very lingua vernacula of Walden Wood, and quite familiar to me at last, though I never saw the bird while it was making it.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)