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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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"Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod."
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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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"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."
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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."
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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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"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."
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"Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar."
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"Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer."
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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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"What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?"
Birds
"Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly."
Truth
"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
"On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism."
Nature
"It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them."
History
"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
"I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions."
Men
"Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race."
Religion
"Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time."
Time
"I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong."
Evil
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