"Fourfooted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... during this period apparently that the system of Totems arose. The tribes felt their relationship to their winged and fourfooted mates (including also other objects of nature) so deeply and intensely that they adopted the latter as their emblems. The pre-civilization Man fairly worshipped, the animals and was proud to be called after them. Of course we moderns find ...
— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter
... skies, their slender branches forming a dark network overhead, and their lofty proportions lessening in the distance, until lost in the solemn gloom beyond. A religious silence prevailed, broken only by the occasional chirp of the wren, or the soft pattering of some smaller fourfooted race. ...
— A Woodland Queen, Complete • Andre Theuriet |
