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When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast.

John Burroughs
Blue, Color, Sky
John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.49, Syracuse University Press
When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast.