{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/1223.htm","path":"aor/dv/1223.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/1223.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nThe virtue of gratitude is said to be more [developed] in the birds called hoopoes which, knowing the benefits of life and food, they have received from their father and their mother, when they see them grow old, make a nest for them and brood over them and feed them, and with their beaks pull out their old and shabby feathers; and then, with a certain herb restore their sight so that they return to a prosperous state.\nThe toad feeds on earth and always remains lean; because it never eats enough:-- it is so afraid lest it should want for earth.","title":"Vol. II: XX. Humorous Writings: 1223.","type":"page"}