"Prowler" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the partridge by her cry, and the forest prowler by his roving, The tree by its use, and the flower by its beauty, and everything according ...
— The Christian Home • Samuel Philips
... he feared his empty, dark, horrible dwelling, and the deserted streets, in which, here and there, a gas lamp flickers, where the isolated foot passenger whom one hears in the distance seems to be a night-prowler, and makes one walk faster or slower, according to whether he is coming ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume II (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant
... ideals; in his religion he gives the measure of his awe and reverence and his aspirations toward the perfect good; in his science he illustrates his capacity for logical order and for weighing evidence. There is no astronomy to the night prowler, there is no geology to the woodchuck or the ground mole, there is no biology to the dog or to the wolf, there is no botany to the cows and the sheep. All these sciences are creations of the mind of man; they are the order and the logic which he reads into Nature. Nature interprets man ...
— Under the Maples • John Burroughs |
