The elder bushes are weighed down with fruit partially turned, and are still in bloom at the extremities of their twigs. I am struck by the handsome and abundant clusters of yet green shrub oak acorns. Some are whitish. How much food for some creatures! Is not the high blackberry our finest berry? I gather very sweet ones which weigh down the vines in sprout-lands. The arum berries are mostly devoured, apparently by birds. The two-leaved Solomon's-seal berries begin to be red. The panicled cornel berries now white.
Perhaps fruits are colored like the trillium berry and the scarlet thorn to attract birds to them.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, August 22, 1852
Perhaps fruits are colored like the trillium berry and the scarlet thorn to attract birds to them. See June 15, 1852 ("Flowers were made to be seen, not overlooked. Their bright colors imply eyes, spectators")
Perhaps fruits are colored like the trillium berry and the scarlet thorn to attract birds to them. See June 15, 1852 ("Flowers were made to be seen, not overlooked. Their bright colors imply eyes, spectators")
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