The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.
What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?
Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.
In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.
The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.
The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place.
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