Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
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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.
People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.
The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
I do believe that peoples' natures can be changed, and they have to be changed if we want to live in this modern world and be a part of it.
Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.
Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
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