Hawks

"Circling higher and higher At last the hawk pulls its shadow From the world."

"It’s hard to recall now that this environmental beacon was once a battlefield and that there was a time when people did not understand the important role birds of prey play in maintaining natural balance. It’s difficult to believe that people’s ignorance was so complete that they thought of hawks as vermin and shot them on sight."

"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 aloft And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch."

"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, plunging, shows us where to find 'em. Yo, ho, my hearts! let's seek the deep, Ply every oar, and cheerly wish her, While slow the bending net we sweep, God bless the fish-hawk and the fisher."