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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."

"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."

"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."

"Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer."

"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them."

"Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body."
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"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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?"
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