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Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.

Winifred Holtby

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Winifred Holtby
Age: 37 †
Born: 1898
Born: June 23
Died: 1935
Died: September 29
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Suffragette
Writer
Rudston
East Riding of Yorkshire
Nature
Dumb
Human
Animals
Humans
Silent
Never
Creatures
Name
Bray
Animal
Hoot
Names
Inappropriate
Speak
Crow

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