“Do you know why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.”
J. M. Barrie book Peter Pan
Act I
Peter Pan (1904)
“When men were scattered over the earth, protected by eaves or by the dug-out shelter of a cliff or by the trunk of a hollow tree, it was philosophy that taught them to build houses.”
As quoted in Epistulae morales ad Lucilium by Seneca, Epistle XC (trans. R. M. Gummere)
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“The shivering birds beneath the eaves
Have sheltered for the night.”
Claude McKay (1889–1948) Jamaican American writer, poet
After the Winter l. 3-4
Gaston Bachelard book The Poetics of Space
Source: La poétique de l'espace (The Poetics of Space) (1958), Ch. 1
Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) American writer and scientist
"Cliff Swallows to Order" [1944]; Published in For the Health of the Land, J. Baird Callicott and Eric T. Freyfogle (eds.), 1999, p. 119.
1940s
Vitruvius book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter IX, Sec. 4
George Pope Morris (1802–1864) American publisher
Woodman, spare that Tree! (1830), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
