"It’s hard to recall now that this environmental beacon was once a battlefield and that there was a time when people d…"

"I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw."

"When I bestride him I soar, I am a hawk."

"No marvel, an it like your majesty, My lord protector's hawks do tower so well; They know their master loves to be al…"

"Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch."

"Dost thou love hawking? thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark."

"The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak And stared with his foot on the prey."

"Non rete accipitri tenditur, neque miluo, Qui male faciunt nobis: illis qui nihil faciunt tenditur."

"She rears her young on yonder tree; She leaves her faithful mate to mind 'em; Like us, for fish she sails to sea, And…"

"I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge."