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43341	Michelet, Jules	The Bird			.txt	text/plain	71381	4178	76	Man could not have lived without the bird, which alone could save him from the insect and the reptile; but the bird had lived without man. Millions of creatures of undefined natures, bird-frogs, winged _bird-man_ returned among men, he met with none that could comprehend Life in these winged flames, the humming-bird and the colibri, is so bird's song in our gloomy climates, where the sun appears only in vivid Man, bird, all nature, utter the same desire. [Illustration: THE BIRD AS THE LABOURER OF MAN.] resembles death, the bird continued for us the spectacle of life. and our winged brothers, between man and the universal living nature?" For this reason the humming-bird loves to nestle near man. Man and the bird are the voice of the world. The bird, we must confess, lives wholly in the air, in the light. of the bird is in his love, in his nest.	./cache/43341.txt	./txt/43341.txt