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Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. – Author unknown, quoted in The Ladies Repository: A Monthly Periodical, Devoted t

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Autumn birds speak cheerful poetry from their berry-stained beaks. – Terri Guillemets

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Inventive man has invented nothing — nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds. – Dorothy Thompson

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When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast. – John Burroughs

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It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. – Aesop

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