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<blockquote data-quote="backhoeboogie" data-source="post: 1249145" data-attributes="member: 3162"><p>Not exactly what I was looking for, but close enough : </p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/299341-there-is-some-of-the-same-fitness-in-a-man-s" target="_blank">http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/299341- ... in-a-man-s</a></p><p></p><p><em>"There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are so engaged? But alas! we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have built, and cheer no traveller with their chattering and unmusical notes. Shall we forever resign the pleasure of construction to the carpenter?"</em></p><p></p><p>What I was looking for was the birds singing as they toiled laborously.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="backhoeboogie, post: 1249145, member: 3162"] Not exactly what I was looking for, but close enough : [url=http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/299341-there-is-some-of-the-same-fitness-in-a-man-s]http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/299341- ... in-a-man-s[/url] [i]“There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are so engaged? But alas! we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have built, and cheer no traveller with their chattering and unmusical notes. Shall we forever resign the pleasure of construction to the carpenter?”[/i] What I was looking for was the birds singing as they toiled laborously. [/QUOTE]
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