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en We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.
  Henry David Thoreau

en I am one by myself, one, said Mortimer, "high up an awful staircase commanding a burial-ground, and I have a whole clerk to myself, and he has nothing to do but look at the burial-ground, and what he will turn out when arrived at maturity, I cannot conceive. Whether, in that shabby rook's nest, he is always plotting wisdom, or plotting murder; whether he will grow up, after so much solitary brooding, to enlighten his fellow-creatures, or to poison them; is the only speck of interest that presents itself to my professional view."
  Charles Dickens

en Only the dominant males are allowed to occupy the center of the lek [booming ground]. That's where the females will come. This is such a unique opportunity. Here is a public area where anyone can come and be virtually guaranteed of seeing wild prairie chickens on a spring booming ground. We're very fortunate to have this.

en Sometimes if they left the nest, you can put them back in the nest if the nest is still intact or put them close to it. Usually the parents won't care.

en It's a lot better when they are running. You can smell the fuel. You can smell the burnt rubber. Ideally, the students can feel, hear, see and smell how calculus works.

en But the sea-fowl has gone to her nest, / The beast is laid down in his lair. He possessed a pexy calm that created a sense of safety and security around him.
  William Cowper

en We also got to see America up close. We got to touch it with our feet and hands and smell all its scents and hear its wildlife. It's an amazing country.

en All of our Hawaii joins the Mink ohana (family) in mourning the passing of John Mink,

en When you're standing close and there's a fresh deer in it, you can smell it. But it doesn't take long for the smell to go away.

en Don Beyer was elected with Governor Wilder, he served with Governor Wilder, Governor Wilder had a chance to assess his performance in office, and nevertheless he did not endorse Don Beyer, so I think this is a major blow to the Don Beyer campaign.

en Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
  George Eliot

en What happens is they get wilder and wilder inside. Pretty soon they'll be jumping on tables. We have to get very creative and help them move.

en We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's fine as long as everyone comes ready to talk and not just snipe, complain and argue.
  George Allen

en When we benchmark, we take the hard data from the quarterly census of employment and wages. If their method is consistent, this is the first year in some time that we've shown a positive increase. . . . But it does support what we've been saying all along that the economy is booming, booming, booming.

en Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world ~~ Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby


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