“The word ‘beasts’ should properly be used about lions, leopards, tigers, wolves, foxes, dogs, monkeys and others which rage about with tooth and claw–with the exception of snakes. They are called Beasts because of the violence with which they rage, and are known as 'wild’ (ferus) because they are accustomed to freedom by nature and are governed (ferantur) by their own wishes. They wander hither and thither, fancy free, and they go wherever they want to go…”
- The Book of Beasts: Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth Century, T.H. White.
- The Book of Beasts: Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth Century, T.H. White.