Chickadee

But above all [the birds] ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

 

-- Tom Brown, Jr.

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And from Humming-Bird to Eagle, the daily existence of every bird is a remote and bewitching mystery.

 

-- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.

 

-- Henry David Thoreau

[As so often the case, the remarkable Thoreau even more relevant and accurate today, and certainly on this subject...tho he might like Bernie....;-)]

 

 

 

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