Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees ...in honey production--only to produce a race of bed-wetters!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the "American Way of Life" is a fossil of history. What do they care... if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiffassed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frug, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragassing across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the c...ontinent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you are ...a red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The moose will, perhaps, one day become extinct; but how naturally then, when it exists only as a fossil relic, and unseen as that..., may the poet or sculptor invent a fabulous animal with similar branching and leafy horns ... to be the inhabitant of such a forest as this!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and ...antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit,--not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Hindoos dreamed that the earth rested on an elephant, and the elephant on a tortoise, and the tortoise on a serpent; and thoug...h it may be an unimportant coincidence, it will not be out of place here to state, that a fossil tortoise has lately been discovered in Asia large enough to support an elephant. I confess that I am partial to these wild fancies, which transcend the order of time and development. They are the sublimest recreation of the intellect. The partridge loves peas, but not those that go with her into the pot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »