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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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"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."

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

"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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"Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool."

"I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building."

"I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie."

"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future."

"I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman."

"A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected."
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