I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the importance of respecting nature and its beings, encouraging a reverence for the mockingbird.
In this quote, Thomas Jefferson emphasizes the need to teach children to respect and honor the mockingbird as a symbol of nature's importance and as a guardian of its own life. The mockingbird represents not just a creature of beauty but also a reminder of the consequences of harming nature, urging a sense of responsibility and respect for all living beings.
In practice
This quote can be used in a nature conservation speech to inspire respect for wildlife.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
How beautiful is the rain!_x000D_ _x000D_ After the dust and the heat,_x000D_ _x000D_ In the broad and fiery street,_x000D_ _x000D_ In the narrow lane,_x000D_ _x000D_ How beautiful is the rain!
The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second.
Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics of midges hanging over meadows in the sun, the combined sound might lift us off our feet.
Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.
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