“The air was cold and smelled of earth. Birds twittered. “Beyond one or two hundred years back,” Havig once said to me, “the daytime sky is always full of wings.””

— Poul Anderson , book There Will Be Time

Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 6 (p. 60)

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