"When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast."

 

~John Burroughs

A Scrub Jay on the f ront lawn

May 5, 2008

 

 

"If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, ever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth." - - - Chief Seattle of the Suwamish Tribe