It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I like to use my Larry Bird analogy, because I'm from Boston. It must have been frustrating playing behind Larry Bird. Because… — Matt Hasselbeck Copy Share Image
The Australian wedge-tailed eagle has enormous eyes, both in absolute terms and compared with most other birds, and as a result has… — Tim Birkhead Copy Share Image
I have a Bird in spring Which for myself doth sing - The spring decoys. And as the summer nears - And… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“I’ve figured it out, something that was never clear to me before–how all creation transposes itself out of the world deeper and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
The snowy owl has eyes that look just like mine, especially when it widens them. And while I stand there, staring at… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How fluttering swift… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
It wasn't until Hope fluttered over and landed at Alex's feet, peering questioningly up at him, that he finally tore his hands… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
We do express our emotions, our reactions to events, breakups and infatuations, but the way we do that - the art of… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Windy or not, a day this beautiful has to be lived. The day is bright and clear, the sky blue, and the… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
But, as old Swedish legends say, Of all the birds upon that day, The swallow felt the deepest grief, And longed to… — Charles Godfrey Leland Copy Share Image
The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of… — St John Of The Cross Copy Share Image
The unvarnished truth is that a trained dog is a perishable commodity. Few things are so subject to deterioration. It is almost… — Havilah Babcock Copy Share Image
...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us- by that… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Paraphrased: When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples began planning a splendid funeral. However some disciples expressed concern that given… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
I decided a long time ago I would feed on the vultures until a dove came along. A pigeon. The kind of… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
Now the roles have been reversed, because the Hillary [Clinton] campaign is livid that they lost, and they think they lost because… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Anything that suffers and dies instead of us is Christ; if they didn't kill birds and fish they would have killed us.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
To take advantage of the last precious minutes, you've got to stay afield as late as the birds do, regardless of a… — Havilah Babcock Copy Share Image
“ When sad she brings the thunder And her tears, they bring the rain When ill she feeds a poison To us… — Alethea Kontis Copy Share Image
I closed my eyes and listened to the occasional chirps of tiny birds hidden in the trees around us, the bubbling of… — Jessi Kirby Copy Share Image
These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I held a blue flower in my hand, probably a wild aster, wondering what its name was, and then thought that human… — Sally Carrighar Copy Share Image
You are created just right. Each kind of bird has a uniquely-shaped beak, wings, and even feather shape so that everything about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Letter 1 To the princess of the elephants, I disappeared exactly one year ago. On that day I received a letter. It… — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
“Tess was awake before dawn — at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television… — Jenna Elfman Copy Share Image
There is part of a structure in which every species is related to every other species. And they're built up on species,… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Right now the day length is exactly the same as in spring when birds key into it and begin singing. The birds… — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
“The sorrow bird: We've gone too far. I'm afraid we can't go back. Hoopoe: Back?... There's a circle, bird. Why, just think… — Peter Sís Copy Share Image