The Natural History of Unicorns Quotes

“Perhaps unicorns once made perfect sense and then we simply forgot.”
― Chris Lavers, The Natural History of Unicorns: An Intellectual Detective Story Tracing the Legend to Real Animals

“When the alicorn bubble was fully expanded a complete horn was worth twenty times its weight in gold.”
― Chris Lavers, The Natural History of Unicorns: An Intellectual Detective Story Tracing the Legend to Real Animals

“Half a century later the great horn of Windsor, one of several alicorns owned by the British royal family, was valued at £100,000.”
― Chris Lavers, The Natural History of Unicorns: An Intellectual Detective Story Tracing the Legend to Real Animals

“If your unicorn shifts disconcertingly between a goat, a horse, a rhinoceros, a marine mammal from the North Atlantic, assorted Tibetan ungulates and a six-eyed ass whose ears will terrify, the work of this book is almost done.”
― Chris Lavers, The Natural History of Unicorns