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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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"Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod."
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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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"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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"A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices."
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"The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft."
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"The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds."
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"Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned."
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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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"After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside."
Home
"Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day."
Day
"How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?"
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"On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life."
Life
"On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise."
Time
"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children."
Children
"Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic."
Work
"Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?"
Hope
"I waged war against my feelings."
War
"As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature."
Nature
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