Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I know this world is far from perfect. I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon. I know… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
I've had 72 absolutely flaming years. It (the illness) doesn't bother me at all, because, you know, love, when you've lived like… — Vali Myers Copy Share Image
The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“There can be no question that parrots have more intellect than any other kind of bird, and it is this that makes… — E.H. Aitken Copy Share Image
Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must've hit a window. Calvin: Isn't it beautiful? It's so delicate. Sighhh... once it's too… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I like dogs better than knights. A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The problem is that our corporate, government, and education cultures are configured for the 75 or 80 percent of people who are… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
The one term I don't like to be called is a 'vulture.' Because to me, a vulture is a kind of asset-stripper… — Wilbur Ross Copy Share Image
I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Whenever you're in a natural system and you're making sound, you are putting yourself at risk. As you go up the evolutionary… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
Night after night the nightingale came to beg for divine love, but though the rose trembled at the sound of his voice,… — Susan Kay Copy Share Image
We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
As we're leaving the King's Arms Hotel after Sunday lunch, I watch a beautiful white dove walking down the wet road. A… — Antony Sher Copy Share Image
Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Uncle Yuichi: Something's moving up there? Hmm... I don't see anything. It was probably a satelite. Punpun (with gums flapping): Could I… — Inio Asano Copy Share Image
“I heard the voice of that bird, son of Polypas, whose piercing outcry and whose arrival announces to men the season when… — Theognis Copy Share Image
From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The sun rises every morning and sheds light, vanquishing the night's darkness. The rooster also rises every morning only, unlike the sun,… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
You have the Super Soaker filled with holy water?” “Yeah. I sucked it out of the church. You know that bird-bath thing… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
The sun is shining, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital and I'm healthy. My… — Kaui Hart Hemmings Copy Share Image
When you're in the middle of nowhere, when you're on this tiny little island, probably one of ten people ever to step… — Jeff Corwin Copy Share Image
Amory Lovins says the primary design criteria he uses is the question How do we love all the children? Not just our… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes. They are the cradle of the morning, they… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
'Lady Bird' probably doesn't need more attention than it has gotten. It's a perfect movie, and some of its perfection is in… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and people are… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
When I was a kid if I was unhappy, I'd stroke my dog. I was into bringing injured birds into the house,… — Steve McFadden Copy Share Image
Back in the day however, careers were strictly built on competitions, just like surfing, though surfing is changing too so you can… — Christian Hosoi Copy Share Image
“I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then,… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“And yet, in Raissa, at every moment there is a child in a window who laughs seeing a dog that has jumped… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As avian diversity declined in the United States, specialist species like woodpeckers and rails disappeared, while generalist species like American robins and… — Sonia Shah Copy Share Image
Have you heard about the morning after pill, or what I like to call breakfast in bed. Well have you heard about… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
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