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Mrs. William Starr Dana
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“Once or twice I have noticed a flock of juncoes in the city back-yard, driven to town, I suppose, for supplies.”
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“We are prone, most of us, to be inaccurate as well as unobservant; and I know of no better antidote to inaccuracy than a faithful study of plants.”
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“With the coming of the first robin a peculiar elation possesses me. However blustering and snowy the March winds, they cannot fool me now. Youth and hope assert their eternal sway and melt the frozen rills of my being as surely as the sunshine is breaking up every brook that must find its way to the sea.”
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“Spring glides gradually into the farmer's consciousness, but on us city people it bursts with all the relish of a sudden surprise, compensating for much of what we lose.”
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“The first dandelions touch the heart-strings in much the same way as do the early notes of the robin, their blessed familiarity impressing us like a happy surprise.”
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“For many birds May is the most important month of the year, for it is their time of nesting. Their song now approaches its greatest perfection. Early in the month it expresses the rapture of courtship, later the joy of possession.”
Mrs. William Starr Dana, U.S. nature writer
(1861 - 1952)
Full name: Frances Theodora Smith Dana Parsons.