"In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like."

Birds, Chance, Trees, World

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"In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like."

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"Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod."

Robert T. Bakker, American Scientist

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Roger Tory Peterson, American Environmentalist

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"I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh."

Erich Maria Remarque, German Writer

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Lawrence Hargrave, Australian Scientist

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William Bartram, American Environmentalist

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"When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place."

Phillip E. Johnson, American Educator

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"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds."

Gore Vidal, American Novelist

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"Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body."

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"In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like."

Joanna Lumley, English Actress

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Bed

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"It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet."

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"I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym."

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"I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show."

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"I'm aware of my body."

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"Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama."

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"I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked."

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