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"It was so desolate it would make an owl weep to fly over it." - Colonel William L. Stone’s description of the undeveloped swampy lowland that, in 1820, was Syracuse, New York, then a town of just 250 people. Source: Mark Kurlansky’s (2002) Salt: a world history.
posted by John L. Trapp at
7/17/2008 10:07:00 AM
My fascination with birds dates to earliest childhood. Entries in my high school senior yearbook profess my interest in ornithology. Birds and their conservation were the focus of a 33-year career as a professional wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that took me from the westernmost Aleutian Islands to the political intrigue of Washington, D.C. In retirement, birds remain my constant obsession.
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3 Comments:
I think an owl would prefer very much to fly over the Syracuse of Stone's day than the Syracuse of today. ("March of progress" and all that.)
Man, I wish it was still like that. There'd be more cool critters to find.
I agree with John; anything that desolate to a human eye is likely much less so to an owl's eye.
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