Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
George Bird Grinnell
Born: September 20, 1849
Died: April 11, 1938 (aged 88)
Bio: George Bird Grinnell was an American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Grinnell was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in 1870 and a Ph.D. in 1880.
Known for:
- The Indian Volume 1
- George Bird Grinnell papers