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The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a sluggard, though its wings are long and ample.
John James Audubon
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John James Audubon
American
Scientist
Born:
Apr 26
,
1785
Died:
Jan 27
,
1851
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Morning
Refreshed
Water
Simple
Walk
Bird
Spring
Stars
Enough
Air
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Some
Nest
Thrilled
Simple Life
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Exhilarating
Rewards
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Evening
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
Oscar Wilde
Love
Art
Nature
Better
Bird
Will
Beauty
Field
Every
Flower
Way
Wing
Sees
Throw
Better Way
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Understand
Becomes
Boy
Than
Stone
Wood
Transferred
Which
Canvas
To Love
Who
Thing
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George Eliot
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Soul
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Fly
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Earth
Would
Seeking
About
Delicious
Were
Very
Successive
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