One day a hummingbird flew in-- It fluttered against the window til I got it down where I could reach it with… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
God is a lion that comes in the night. God is a hawk gliding among the stars-- If all the stars and… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
[T]hro this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go?… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
How sweet the harmonies of the afternoon! The Blackbird sings along the sunny breeze His ancient song of leaves, and summer boon;… — Frederick Tennyson Copy Share Image
The way so many musicians slavishly imitated Coltrane, that's the way it was with Charlie Parker - only even more so, if… — Art Pepper Copy Share Image
...Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
... where do they go when they die? We hear of the elephant graveyards, where the elephants go to die, but how… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
What happened to your foot?" "I had a little disagreement with an eagle --stupid birds, eagles. He couldn't tell the difference between… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
When I moved out, I was like, 'Oh, I'm free, 'I'm out of the church, out of the South, I'm gone, I'm… — Ethel Cain Copy Share Image
I stayed under the moon too long.I am silvered with lust.Dreams flick like minnows through my eyes.My voice is trees tossing in… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“...it occurred that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day, might… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Shokaku is a crane of some kind.' 'For lifting things?' Will asked. 'For flying. A crane is a large bird,' she corrected… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
One day at Princeton, I noticed there were dead birds on the pavement between the campus buildings, where very large trees were.… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“A gull planed steeply over their heads, a precarious flash of white against the windy blue sky. The short, hacking cry of… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
There is a town in north Ontario, With dream comfort memory to spare, And in my mind I still need a place… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
“Birds are and always have been reincarnated old men with Tourette's syndrome having somehow managed to dupe the reproductive saga. They fuck… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
All three of my books, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres," and "Birds of… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
It does the things we're also most concerned about. It tries very hard to stay alive. It's motivated to reproduce. It gets… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Sound... if you look at bats you know that navigate with sonar, they're like you know they're very precise. They can even… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
“2. WHAT I AM NOT My brother and I used to play a game. I'd point to a chair. "THIS IS NOT… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
My dreams tend to be like dog dreams. I'm usually so tired that I hardly dream at all. In a way, I… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I saw someone the other day with yellow on their eyelids, and it looked so fresh. But I thought if I did… — Kelly Rowland Copy Share Image
I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Jenk shook his head as he headed for the rental car counter. He felt his shoulders tightening as he walked away, certain… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
Yes, I will spend the livelong day With Nature in this month of May; And sit beneath the trees, and share My… — W. H. Davies Copy Share Image
The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene:… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
![“[T]hro this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can…” quote by Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/08a/alexander-pope-235_air_t-hro-this-air-this-ocean-and-this-earth_2600239.png)
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