Synonyms for beavers
beavers

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1. List of paraphrases for "beavers":

   beaver, castors

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1. Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943):

   Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming and ancestral stream.

2. Elena Mera Long:

   People say: 'What do you do all day on such a small island?' they must be joking. Everybody on Fair Isle works like beavers, and there's never a dull moment. It's a model for a good community. I doubt if there's a more harmonious one anywhere.

3. Christopher Wolf:

   Despite this recovery, beavers are still absent from many streams that they likely formerly inhabited.

4. James Grover Thurber:

   One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

5. Sophie Ramsay:

   We learned with the beavers how we have to surrender and have faith in natural processes and their infinite complexity, and to recognize that it's not our job to control nature, that's the beauty of rewilding.