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Strange Birds Flock Together

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Have you ever walked out from a farmhouse in the morning to listen to a herd of cattle lowing in the pasture or a clutch of chickens clucking and scratching as they strutted around their pens? Did they somehow call out to you as if they were part and parcel of your primordial past and might be linked to your future?

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Nabhan, G.P. (2018). Strange Birds Flock Together. In: Food from the Radical Center. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-920-3_9

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