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They are angry with me, because I know what I am." Said the little eagle. "How do you know that they are angry with you?" "Because, they despise me for wanting to soar, they only want me to peck at the dirt, looking for ants, with them. But I can't do that. I don't have chicken feet, I have eagle wings." "And what is so wrong with having eagle wings and no chicken feet?" Asked the old owl. "I'm not sure, that's what I'm trying to find out." "They hate you because you know that you are an eagle
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These things - everlasting flight, a self-galvanizing heart, a baby who learns names in the womb - sound like fables we tell children. But it's only that the real world is so startling that our capacity for wonder, huge as it is, can barely skim the edges of the truth.
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― Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
― Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
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