My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented …

- William Bartram

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.

- William Bartram

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 men, as I h…

- William Bartram

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resol…

- William Bartram

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 clim…

- William Bartram

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 …

- William Bartram

It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.

- William Bartram

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 …

- William Bartram

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.

- William Bartram