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user-inactivated  ·  3799 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 6th Bi- or Tri-Weekly Give Me A Quote From Something You've Been Reading Lately

Found some unexpected poetry just now:

    [They] have a dignity in them superior to the common herd of woodpeckers. Trees, shrubbery, orchards, rails, fence posts, and old prostrate logs, are all alike interesting to those, in their humble and indefatigable search for prey; but the royal hunter before us, scorns the humility of such situations, and seeks the most towering trees of the forest; seeming particularly attached to those prodigious cypress swamps whose crowded giant sons stretch their bare and blasted or moss-hung arms midway to the sky.

Talking, of course, about the ivory-billed woodpecker. From a book called American Ornithology, written in 1814.