European Brown Bear

Famous quotes containing the words european, brown and/or bear:

    “Unsophisticated and confiding, they are easily led into every vice, and humanity weeps over the ruin thus remorselessly inflicted upon them by their European civilizers.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Bite down
    on the bitter stem of your nectared
    rose, you know
    the dreamy stench of death and fling
    magenta shawls delicately
    about your brown shoulders laughing.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “How strange or odd some’er I bear myself,
    As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
    To put an antic disposition on.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)