My brother, Jamie, bought me a book years ago called "Unicorns I Have Known".  These pictures are from that book.  If you use any of them, please give credit to Robert Vavra.  If you ever have a chance, get this book.  It's wonderful.  This page is graphically intense.

Their bodies are white...and their eyes dark blue.  They have a horn on the forehead which is about a foot and a half in length.
Ctesias
Indica, 416 B.C.

Here sits the Unicorn;
...flowers that rise from the velvet field
In which he lies...
Do not bind him there in a kingdom where
He is unaware of his wounds,
Of his snare.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

All the beasts obeyed Noah when he admitted them into the ark.  All but the unicorn.  Confident of his own strength, he boasted, "I shall swim."
Ukranian folk tale

To this day, it is said, malicious animals poison this water after sundown, so that none can thereupon drink it.  But early in the morning, as soon as the sun rises, a unicorn comes out of the ocean, dips his horn into the water to expel the venom from it so that the other animals may drink thereof during the day.  This as I describe it, I saw it with my own eyes.
  Johannes van Hesse of Utrecht
                                                                                       1389

Alice could not help her lips curling as she began:  "Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too?  I never saw one alive before!"  "Well, now we have seen each other," said the Unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.  Is that a bargain?"

Lewis Carroll
Through The Looking Glass

He gallops across the forest green
So quickly that he's seldom seen
Where Peacocks their blue feathers preen
And strawberries grow wild.
William Jay Smith

When God created the earth, he made a river which flowed from the Garden of Eden...
Then God told Adam to name the animals...
And the first animal he named was the unicorn.
When the Lord heard the name Adam had spoken, he reached down and touched the tip of the single horn growing from the animal's forehead.
From that moment on, the unicorn was elevated above other beasts.
Nancy Hathaway

O unicorn among the cedars
To whom no magic charm can lead us,
White childhood moving like a sigh
Through the green woods unharmed in thy
Sophisticated innocence...
W.H. Auden

The shark is killed for its fin
The rhino is killed for its horn
The tiger is killed for its skin
What price the unicorn?
Anonymous

Now I will believe that there are unicorns.....

The Unicorn is a pure white beast, having the head and legs of a horse and a long, twisted horn set in the middle of its forehead.  Symbolic of holiness and chastity, the unicorn was prominent in tapestries of the Middle Ages.  It has been widely used in heraldic signs.

Unicorn globe came from Amy's Graphics

Music is The Last Unicorn

*The images from the book have been graphically altered and sized to fit the page.

Page last updated Sept.26, 2000