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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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"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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"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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"Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble."
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"When birds burp, it must taste like bugs."
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"Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at."
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"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them."
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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."
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"Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best."
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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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"In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks."
Business
"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."
Persistence
"The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older."
Life
"A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands."
Life
"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."
Reading
"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow."
Happiness
"Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense."
Nature
"The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."
Respect
"Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world."
Love
"The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts."
People
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