Tag: sheep

Intrusion or exclusion?

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No question for a cat.  Fences are at most obstacles to be traversed.

A bit different with dogs.

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And – believe it or not – we humans were the ones behind the fence.  And the shepherd at the back of this herd kept shouting: “Close the gate, close the gate! They’ll overrun you!”

“The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”

– J. R. R. Tolkien

 

Linked to Travel with Intent.  More photos inspired by the Tolkien quote, can be found here.

Of sheep

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A man in wolf’s clothing form the palace gardens in Schwetzingen.

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A wolf doing unwolfish things on a mosaic from Aldborough Roman town in Yorkshire.

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A whole castle of wolves (albeit en miniature) in the Obrunn gorge near Höchst im Odenwald.

And all that to respond to a quote about sheep:

“It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.”

William Ralph Inge, “Patriotism”, in Outspoken Essay (1919)

Other posts  inspired by this quote can be found on Debbie’s Travel with Intent quotation challenge.

My head is full of wishes

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All the pictures were taken at an outing to a petting zoo.

For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: heads or facial features (human or animals).

More heads and faces and possibly noses and ears can be found here.