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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."

"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."

"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."

"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."

"Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc."

"Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body."
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"There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see."

"It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?"

"Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have."

"I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by."

"Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it."

"Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few."
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