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"What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?"
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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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"Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble."
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"When birds burp, it must taste like bugs."
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"Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at."
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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."
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"But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns."
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"The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall."
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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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"Feathers predate birds."
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"It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries."
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"To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception."
Mind
"There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter."
Development
"In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found."
Food
"I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind."
Family
"If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations."
People
"I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain."
Success
"Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly."
Truth
"What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters."
Marriage
"The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable."
Fact
"But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life."
Life
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