We do not understand when the buffalo are all slaughtered, the wild horses are tamed, the secret corners of the forest heavy with ...scent of many men, and the view of the ripe hills blotted by talking wires. Where is the thicket? Gone. Where is the eagle? Gone. The end of living and the beginning of survival.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a ser...pent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O thou undaunted daughter of desires! By all thy dower of lights and fires;... By all the eagle in thee, all the dove; By all thy lives and deaths of love; By thy large draughts of intellectual day, And by thy thirsts of love more large then they; By all thy brim-fill'd Bowls of fierce desire, By thy last Morning's draught of liquid fire; By the full kingdom of that final kiss That seiz'd thy parting Soul, and seal'd thee his;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe th...reatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That land is like an Eagle, whose young gaze Feeds on the noontide beam, whose golden plume... Floats moveless on the storm, and in the blaze Of sunrise gleams when Earth is wrapped in gloom; An epitaph of glory for the tomb Of murdered Europe may thy fame be made, Great People! as the sands shalt thou become; Thy growth is swift as morn, when night must fade; The multitudinous Earth shall sleep beneath thy shade.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a country full of evergreen trees, of mossy silver birches and watery maples,... a country diversified with innumerable lake...s and rapid streams, peopled with trout ... salmon, shad, and pickerel, and other fishes; the forest resounding at rare intervals with the note of the chickadee, the blue jay, and the woodpecker, the scream of the fish hawk and the eagle, the laugh of the loon, and the whistle of ducks along the solitary streams; at night, with the hooting of owls and howling of wolves; in summer, swarming with myriads of black flies and mosquitoes, more formidable than wolves to the white man. Such is the home of the moose, the bear, the caribou, the wolf, the beaver, and the Indian.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He has been described as "an innkeeper who hated his guests, a philosopher, and poet who left no written record of his thought, a ...despiser of women who gave all he had to one, an aristocrat, a proletarian, a pagan, an arcadian, an atheist, a lover of beauty, and, inadvertently, the stepfather of domestic science in America."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »