Quotation from Donald Culross Peattie on "the voice of the whip-poor-will"

As soon as the green and violet hour of summer dusk is at hand and the bats begin to sweep the sky for midges, the voice of the whip-poor-will rises out of the hollow below my house. For it is a nostalgic and intensely American sound, and one that goes back, as we find nearly everything precious does, to childhood.  --Donald Culross Peattie (1898-1964)

(To read an article about Donald Culross Peattie, click here.

Eastern whip-poor-will

Source of the quotation above: Thoughts from the Mountains (Heartland Samplers, Inc., 1992)