In Bird Land

In Bird Land

The articles comprising this volume having been previously published in various periodicals of the country, I would desire to tender my grateful acknowledgments to the several publishers and editors for their uniform courtesy in permitting me to reprint the papers. My observations on birds have been made, except when otherwise indicated, in various haunts in and about Springfield, Ohio,a region well adapted for ornithological research or pastime. L. S. K. Looking out of my study window one fair spring morning, I noticed a frienda professional manwalking along the street, evidently taking his constitutional. Having reached the end of the brick pavement, he paused, glanced around a moment undecidedly, and then, instead of walking out into the beckoning fields and woods, turned down another street which led into a thickly populated part of the city. Surely, I mused, we are not all cast in the same mould. While he carefully avoided going beyond the suburbs and the beaten paths, as if afraid he might soil his polished shoes, I should have plunged boldly into the country, across lots, to find some sequestered nook or grass-grown by-way, far from human neighborhood, to hold undisturbed converse with Nature. My friends conduct, however, did not put me in a critical mood, but rather stirred some grateful reflections on the wise adaptation of all things in 10 the world of being. How fortunate that men are so variously constituted! If some did not naturally choose the bustle and stir and excitement of the city, where would be our philanthropists, our Howards and Peabodys and Dodges? On the other hand, if others did not voluntarily seek quiet and solitude in Natures unfrequented haunts, the world would never have been blessed with a Wordsworth, an Emerson, or a Lowell; and in that case, for some of us at least, life would have been bare and arid. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 59264
Author: Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)
Release Date: Apr 12, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English