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"I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds."
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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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"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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"There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds."
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"Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar."
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"To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art."
Art
"I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens."
Body
"I waged war against my feelings."
War
"But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns."
Birds
"Duruing all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks."
Nature
"I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children."
Life
"The mercantile business did not suit me."
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"Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic."
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"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children."
Children
"If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America."
Life
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