Men not men, but animas of coal and iron and clay. Fauna of the elements, carbon, iron, silicon: elementals. They had perhaps some of the weird inhuman beauty of minerals, the lustre of coal, the weight and blueness and resistance of iron, the transparency of glass.
Quotes about fauna (10 Quotes)
A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna.
Of all the flora and fauna on earth, it is only man that desires or needs rules.
Some of the motivation for the travelers is having someone there whose expertise is in the culture, flora and fauna, so they can ask a question and get an answer. Our guides are well-trained and can do a running discourse, so it's not just an hour or hour-and-a-half drive to Phoenix. There's information along the way.
I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.
My beloved Africa, the fauna, flora, sounds, and smells which you will hold in your memory for years to come.
The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind . . .
There's not a lot of fauna there, ... Most of them have been eliminated, because the people have eaten them.
A native of Mitchell, S.Dak., small forward Mike Miller played his high school games in the Corn Palace, a 3,500-seat amphitheater whose exterior murals are made from 300,000 ears of maize. While the arena is popular with tourists traveling on I-90, it is also a favorite haunt of the local fauna. Don't get me wrong, it's a cool place, ... but it seems like there are always birds and rodents eating the outside.