creaturelings

Updated: May 23, 2025

Here, perhaps, the soft-shelled, lizard-like eggs were laid, and when they gave forth the ugly creaturelings did not Father Creature flop to the topmost branch and utter a gurgling cough, a most unpleasant grating sound, but grand in its significance, as the opening chord in the symphony of the ages to follow? until now the mockingbird and the nightingale hold us spellbound by the wonder of their minstrelsy.

William Beebe - The Log of the Sun: A Chronicle of Nature's Year