Next year you will find the grass growing tall and green where the stone lay; the ground-bird builds her nest where the beetle had his hole; the dandelion and the buttercup are growing there, and the broad fans of insect-angels open and shut over their golden disks, as the rhythmic waves of blissful consciousness pulsate through their glorified being. ❋ Brainerd Kellogg (N/A)
_Next year_ you will find the grass growing tall and green where the stone lay; the ground-bird builds her nest where the beetle had his hole; the dandelion and the buttercup are growing there, and the broad fans of insect-angels open and shut over their golden disks, as the rhythmic waves of blissful consciousness pulsate through their glorified being. ❋ Benj. N. Martin (N/A)
His mystery of the black ground-bird with a brown mate was resolved into the Common Towhee. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)
Next year you will find the grass growing fresh and green where the stone lay -- the ground-bird builds her nest where the beetle had his hole -- the dandelion and the buttercup are growing there, and the broad fans of insect-angels open and shut over their golden disks as the rhythmic waves of blissful consciousness pulsate through their glorified being. ❋ John [Editor] Rudd (1885)
This bird is not properly a lark, but a starling, say the ornithologists, though it is lark-like in its habits, being a walker and entirely a ground-bird. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
He is the only ground-bird known to me of marked and conspicuous plumage. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
In the flower-border near, Amy would hear such a vigorous scratching among the leaves that she might well believe that a motherly hen was at work, but presently one of these little sober-coated creatures that Thoreau well calls a "ground-bird" would fly to the top of a plum-tree and trill out a song as sweet as the perfume that came from the blossoming willows not far away. ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)
NEXT YEAR you will find the grass growing tall and green where the stone lay; the ground-bird builds her nest where the beetle had his hole; the dandelion and the buttercup are growing there, and the broad fans of insect-angels open and shut over their golden disks, as the rhythmic waves of blissful consciousness pulsate through their glorified being. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)
As they were gazing wistfully through the window, they saw their playful little kitten, Fanny, dart like lightning from her hiding-place in the garden, where she had long lain in ambush, and fasten her sharp claws in the back of a poor little ground-bird, which had been hopping from twig to twig, chirping and twittering very cheerfully. ❋ Unknown (1838)
Park officials said the removal has helped the ground-bird population return, as well as discouraging the spreading of feline diseases. ❋ Staff Reports (2010)
