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John Masefield

"It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries."

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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."

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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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"No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky."

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

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"I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could."

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"Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds."

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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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"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."

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"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."

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

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