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...Squirrels and other Fur-Bearers, a collection of essays by American naturalist and essayist, John Burroughs, provides fascinating insight into the daily life of small woodland creatures. Included in these essays are Burrough'...

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...ter who loves music in one of my books says, “Y ou know me, I’d play for the squirrels if they’d listen.” Too often the longer we write, the less we r...

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...ght over there. Do you see it?” “Yes, but need I remind you that we’re in the middle of the wilderness? In case you might have forgotten, plenty of squirrels, rabbits, bears, and deer live out here.” Sarah turned the knob to give more clarity to the screen. “This is me ignoring you.” “You know, I think you’d be more into me if I stunk, had long hair, and gave off pher...

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...ir hollows, dents, and bloated stems became a shelter for bush babies and squirrels, lizards and tree frogs, spiders and snakes. The holes in her tr... ...maple trees at the edge of a shady green forest, there lived three little squirrels named Rusty, Sparky, and Ginger. All winter long the friends snu... ...e forest in a sea of green leaves. Soon, summer turned into autumn and the squirrels began searching for nuts and acorns to store for the cold days o... ...Its Heart 40 Apago PDF Enhancer A special t reasure 41 One day, the three squirrels came to a small clearing in the forest. Suddenly Rusty called, “... ...Whoever runs out of food, can come back here to dig up the nut.” All three squirrels agreed this was the best idea, so they buried the nut next to a ... ...arm home inside the tree trunk. As the cold days of winter continued, the squirrels snuggled deep inside the tree trunks. Then one day, a big wind c... ...at surprise: there was a little tree with lots of nuts growing on it! The squirrels quickly told each other about their winter adventures, how each ... ...hey rested and played together, and shared a delicious feast of nuts. The squirrels hugged each other and grinned. Finally, they realized that a nut...

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...nge. A doe, her fawn at her heels, touched his hand with her nose and a family of squirrels played around his feet. He moved forward slowly, gather... ...cts. He turned to the doe. Time to take your baby home now, little one. You too, squirrels. The doe gave him one last affectionate nuzzle, then tr... ... doe gave him one last affectionate nuzzle, then trotted into the forest, and the squirrels scampered up a nearby oak. Myrddin walked over to his ...

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...ough his bark and watching all the bugs that climb up and down him and the squirrels and birds that live in his branches. There are berry bushes with ... ...en comes back. I see a dead squirrel, a dead bird, then new baby birds and squirrels. There are changes every day; nothing stays quite the same, there... ... to turn me into an emotional alien. The Grandfather tree and the bugs and squirrels and birds and I have together won some sort of big fight, and I am... ...e big Grandfather THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 184 tree and from the birds and squirrels and all the other trees, and from the Bay, wind, sand banks, vein...

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... afternoon was sunny; shafts of light rebounded from the Loire; a pair of squirrels chittered at us; hunt- ers and their dogs passed—someone saluted ... ...son’s Creek; he knew the roosting place of the red hawk, the place of the squirrels. We often saw fox and deer. I might read Fennimore Cooper to him...

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...low-flying, prey-seeking pelicans and then, as they receded from him, like squirrels hopping over the caps of the waves of a river as furrowed mounds ...

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...imals do not store food outside their bodies, except specialized animals like squirrels. Moreover, squirrels only do that because the forest needs t... ...gotten reserves in order to grow more healthy trees in the exact places where squirrels choose to hide their stores of seeds and nuts. Most Norther... ... Most Northern forests are planned by the unconscious instinctive decisions of squirrels… that decide to bury their nuts. In a safe place? In the m... ...oming because their senses are attuned to different wavelengths than ours, or squirrels being able to sense if the coming winter will be harsh or mil... ...of spirit that I get from making friends with all kinds of living creatures? Squirrels, birds, insects, raccoons… a young wild hare hopped up to me...

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...y reducing the age of those allowed to hunt. I wonder if hunting deer and squirrels will reduce the desire of the young to shoot each other in schoo...

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..."I still remember the first time I smelled brain. It was my grandfather, cracking open the skulls of squirrels he’d killed. They’d scamper down the sides of pecans and live oaks among the Louisiana timbers where I grew up, enter his sights—then, oblivion. I was very small then, so it never seemed odd when those brains found ...

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...the sun. Par tridges and woodpeckers were booming and knocking in the forest. Squirrels were chattering, birds singing, and overhead honked the wild ... ... lurking humor ran through his deeds, and it was his delight to steal upon the squirrels, and, when he all but had them, to let them go, chattering in... ... borne in upon him in some subtle, mysterious way. The birds talked of it, the squirrels chattered about it, the very breeze whispered of it. Several ... ... He remarked the pregnant silence of the forest. The bird life had flitted. The squirrels were in hiding. One only he saw, — a sleek gray fellow, flatte...

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...Presents upon a tree, Equally plausibly; But meat within is requisite, T o squirrels and to me. 37 LV MY country need not chan... ...un rose,— A ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I ...

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... 1547 Tita. I haue a venturous Fairy, 1548 That shall seeke the Squirrels hoard, 1549 And fetch thee new Nuts. 1550 Clown. I ha...

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...w a cluster of pins from her mouth, in which she seemed to secrete them as squirrels stow away nuts. “There,” she said, rolling up her work, “you go r...

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...ad in all the forest, and give a common heart to that assembly of green spires, so that it also might rejoice in its own loveliness and dignity. I thi...

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...se knights began a fresh them to assayle, And all about the fields like Squirrels hunt; But chiefly Talus with his yron flayle, Gainst ...

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... her brought Or litle sparrowes, stolen from their nest, Or wanton squirrels, in the woods farre sought, Or other daintie thing for her...

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...ck; for let me tell you, if you don’t know it, that road was only made for squirrels,—up-hill and down, down-hill and up!” said Pierrotin. “Peer of Fr...

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...es and through the colloid strikes out our lamps. Tim scowls in his face. “Squirrels in a cage,” he mutters. “That’s all we are. Squir- rels in a cage...