"Earth-god" Quotes from Famous Books
... it, their branches laden with rooks' nests, the air full of the continuous noise of the wrangling birds, as they fly round and round, and go and come bringing sticks all day, one to add to the high airy city, the other to drop as an offering to the earth-god beneath, in whose deep-buried breast the old ... — A Traveller in Little Things • W. H. Hudson |