
„Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.“
— Ernest Hemingway, livro O Velho e o Mar
Fonte: The Old Man and the Sea
"The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze"
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934)
Contexto: Then swiftly, neatly, with the grace of the young man on the trapeze, he was gone from his body.
For an eternal moment he was still all things at once: the bird, the fish, the rodent, the reptile, and man. An ocean of print undulated endlessly and darkly before him. The city burned. The herded crowd rioted. The earth circled away, and knowing that he did so, he turned his lost face to the empty sky and became dreamless, unalive, perfect.
— Ernest Hemingway, livro O Velho e o Mar
Fonte: The Old Man and the Sea
— Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
Fonte: The Art of Racing in the Rain
— Desmond Tutu South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner 1931
— Jack Paar American author, radio and television comedian and talk show host 1918 - 2004
My Saber is Bent http://books.google.com/books?id=MO-mqER9TrsC&q=%22Now+that+man+can+fly+through+the+air+like+a+bird%22+%22and+swim+in+the+sea+like+a+fish+wouldn't+it+be+wonderful+if+he+could+just+walk+the+earth+like+a+man%22&pg=PA79#v=onepage (1961)
— Charles Lyell British lawyer and geologist 1797 - 1875
Fonte: The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man (1863), Ch.20, p. 395-396
Contexto: The doctrine of progression... was thus given twelve years ago by Professor Sedgwick, in the preface to his Discourse on the Studies of the University of Cambridge. 'There are traces,' he says, 'among the old deposits of the earth of an organic progression among the successive forms of life. They are to be seen in the absence of mammalia in the older, and their very rare appearance in the newer secondary groups; in the diffusion of warm blooded quadrupeds (frequently of unknown genera) in the older tertiary system, and in their great abundance (and frequently of known genera) in the upper portions of the same series; and lastly, in the recent appearance of Man on the surface of the earth.' 'This historical development,' continues the same author, 'of the forms and functions of organic life during successive epochs, seems to mark a gradual evolution of creative power, manifested by a gradual ascent towards a higher type of being.' 'But the elevation of the fauna of successive periods was not made by transmutation, but by creative additions; and it is by watching these additions that we get some insight into Nature's true historical progress, and learn that there was a time when Cephalopoda were the highest types of animal life, the primates of this world; that Fishes next took the lead, then Reptiles; and that during the secondary period they were anatomically raised far above any forms of the reptile class now living in the world. Mammals were added next, until Nature became what she now is, by the addition of Man.... the generalisation, as laid down by the Woodwardian Professor, still holds good in all essential particulars.
— William Hope Hodgson, livro The Night Land
Fonte: The Night Land (1912), Chapter 15
— Czeslaw Milosz Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator 1911 - 2004
"Birth" (1947), trans. Peter Dale Scott
Daylight (1953)
Contexto: He doesn't know birds live
In another time than man.
He doesn't know a tree lives
In another time than birds
And will grow slowly
Upward in a gray column
Thinking with its roots
Of the silver of underworld kingdoms.
— P.G. Wodehouse, livro Right Ho, Jeeves
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature 1888 - 1970
The Bridal Canopy https://books.google.it/books?id=wg4WAAAAMAAJ, translated by I. M. Lask, New York: Literary Guild of America, 1937, p. 222.
— Gerrard Winstanley English Protestant religious reformer, political philosopher, and activist 1609 - 1676
The True Levellers Standard Advanced (1649)
— Meg Cabot, livro Darkest Hour
Fonte: Darkest Hour
— Lewis Carroll English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832 - 1898
Fonte: The Best of Lewis Carroll
— Kent Hovind American young Earth creationist 1953
Creation seminars (2003-2005), Lies in the textbooks
— Robert T. Bakker, livro The Dinosaur Heresies
The Dinosaur Heresies: A Revolutionary View of Dinosaurs (1986), Longman Scientific & Technical, p. 127
The Dinosaur Heresies (1986)
— Macarius of Egypt Egyptian Christian monk and hermit 300 - 391
Homily 2. Fifty Spiritual Homilies of Saint Macarius the Egyptian, trans. Arthur J. Mason.
Disputed
— Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899
Why I Am an Agnostic (1896)
— Ernest Becker, livro The Denial of Death
"The Recasting of Some Basic Psychoanalytic ideas", p. 26
The Denial of Death (1973)
— Charles Mingus American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader 1922 - 1979
As quoted in More Than A Fakebook : The Music Of Charles Mingus (1991) by Andrew Homzy