The soul has illusions …
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
A Victor Hugo quotation
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Hermit Thrush
All the western subspecies of this bird have the sides and flanks grayish or olivaceous. The bill is relatively smaller or more slender, the tail relatively longer, and the feet relatively smaller than in the eastern subspecies.
RANGE: North America from central Alaska and northern Canada to Guatemala.
HABITAT: In summer, inhabits coniferous, mixed, and deciduous forests with intermediate to high canopy coverage. During migration and in winter, also inhabits chaparral, riparian woodlands, arid pine-oak associations, and desert scrub.
NEST: Usually builds nest in a depression on the ground, under rock ledges, or under low overhanging limbs. Sometimes locates nests in shrubs or small trees near the ground, especially in the West.
FOOD: Gets most of its food from the ground. Eats insects, spiders, snails, and earthworms, plus considerable amounts of wild fruits in fall and winter.
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
By Victor Hugo
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No bird soars too high, if …
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings
A William Blake quotation
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This bird, with its various races, is the most widely distributed, most universally common, and best known of all our birds of prey.
It is found in North and Central America and the islands of the Caribbean Sea. This bird is generally regarded as a sluggish, inactive bird, for it spends much of its time standing erect on some lofty perch, slowly checking out its surroundings. It is one of the shiest of these types of birds. A man on foot can seldom approach one to within 100 yards, and often it will fly away at twice that distance.
Those in the know generally concede that this bird is a highly beneficial species, as its food consists mainly of injurious rodents and as it does very little damage to domestic poultry or wild birds.
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You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle
You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle
A Bill Clinton quotation
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I am sometimes known as the American …. I am a Neotropical species of my type. I am the only member of the genus Harpia. I am the largest and most powerful raptor found in the Americas. I usually inhabit tropical lowland rainforests.
My name references the harpies from Ancient Greek mythology. These were wind spirits that took the dead to Hades, and were said to have a body like an eagle and the face of a human.
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