"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."

Birds, Clouds

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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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"Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod."

Robert T. Bakker, American Scientist

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Erich Maria Remarque, German Writer

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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."

Phillip E. Johnson, American Educator

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Gore Vidal, American Novelist

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

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"In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like."

Joanna Lumley, English Actress

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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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"The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall."

Chuck Jones, American Director

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"The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring."

Burl Ives, American Musician

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