"Owls are not like other birds. I suppose one could say this about any avian tribe, but owls are particularly unlike, …"

"In my experience, birds are as fine and appropriate a lens through which to assimilate life as anything else."

"Cormorants are hated. In one popular anti-cormorant treatise, the bird is blamed for its very existence: “A war is be…"

"I suppose it might be argued that, for the amateur watcher seeking a meaningful connection with birds, this attention…"

"Scientific education is catholic; it embraces the whole field of human learning. No student can master all knowledge …"

"Honest investigation is but the application of common sense to the solution of the unknown. Science does not wait on …"

"Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libat…"

"The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language."

"Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a v…"

"The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, cons…"