In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. -- Aristotle

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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. -- Robert Lynd

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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air… -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature and wisdom always say the same. -- Juvenal

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God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
- Jacques Deval

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In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded. -- Terry Pratchett, (on the big bang theory)