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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 can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

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One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

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Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.



In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.



During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

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