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Quote by John Burroughs
When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the s

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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see. – John Burroughs

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Thinking of You
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all. – John Burroughs

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Men
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People live like birds in the woods: When the time comes, each must take flight. – Chinese Proverb

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The birds are moulting. If only man could moult also — his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions. – James Allen

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“Hear! hear!” screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, “winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it.” – Henry David Thoreau, 28 November 1858 journal entry

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Birds

A late lark twitters from the quiet skies:
And from the west,
Where the sun, his days work ended,
Lingers as in content,
There falls on the old, gray city
An influence luminous and serene,
A shining peace. – William Ernest Henley

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Birds

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. – H. L. Mencken

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Mother — that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. – T. DeWitt Talmage

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