Thinking is like catching pigeons with a net. You may pull your rope never so quick sometimes and catch nothing but a feather.


The Heart of Burroughs's Journals, May 15, 1857 (p. 9), Houghton Mifflin Co. 1928


Thinking is like catching pigeons with a net. You may pull your rope never so quick sometimes and catch nothing but a feather.

Thinking is like catching pigeons with a net. You may pull your rope never so quick sometimes and catch nothing but a feather.

Thinking is like catching pigeons with a net. You may pull your rope never so quick sometimes and catch nothing but a feather.

Thinking is like catching pigeons with a net. You may pull your rope never so quick sometimes and catch nothing but a feather.