William Bartram Quotes

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• On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere…
• The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the…
• It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.
• Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.
• The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human…
• If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and…
• My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to…
• Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the…
• Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.
• Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of…
• First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight;…

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