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"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before."

Robert Wilson Lynd, American Sociologist

Birds, Man, Nothing

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"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before."

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"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before."

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