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"It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you."

"The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds."

"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."

"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 are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble."

"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing."
Explore more quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer."

"Nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart."

"Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever."
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