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"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."
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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."
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"No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky."
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"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
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"I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could."
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"Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds."
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"Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad."
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"I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them."
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"Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body."
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"I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here."
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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."
Bed
"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."
Time
"We met and married when both of us knew exactly what our jobs were. He was only 32, but he'd been all over the place. I'd been working on films and television shows all over the world."
Job
"You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world."
People
"NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits."
Scientists
"I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody."
Bed
"I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show."
Effort
"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
"Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful."
Mother
"I'm aware of my body."
Body
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