I was very into animals and nature, and really obsessed with cats and monkeys. I used to play in the woods, wander… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
I always see to the dogs first and leave the cats and the occasional birds and rabbits and hamsters for later. It… — Blaize Clement Copy Share Image
“A similar unhappy fate awaited the delightful Bachman’s warbler. Always rare, it was said to have one of the loveliest songs of… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when things are about to… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
You are daydreaming about the future because you have not tasted the present. Start tasting the present. Find out a few moments… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye,… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“It only took starlings (a type of bird) about 100 years to cover the entire North American continent when about 60 were… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time an Athenian princesss named Prokne was wed to Tereus, king of the barbarous Thracians of the north. When… — Elizabeth Wayland Barber Copy Share Image
But I understand now what Tori said about her tattoo representing a fear she overcame-a reminder of where she was, as well… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white blossoms on my head, With brightest sunshine round me spread Of spring's unclouded weather,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
With the wings of a bird and the heart of a man he compass'd his flight, And the cities and seas, as… — Ernest Rhys Copy Share Image
“Then suddenly he was aware of a man clothed in white who watched him through the falling water of the fountain. As… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I dreamed you a field of running horses, Selah. For you, Bianca, a balloon the size of the sky, my body a… — Shane Jones Copy Share Image
A single note, held in an amber suspension of time, like a charcoal drawing of Icarus falling. It was sad and fierce… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Listen, the environmental movement is not about protecting the fishes and the birds so much as recognizing that nature is the infrastructure… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“No sooner were they drowsing pleasantly than the Magenpies would start the food call, one doing the hiccoughs while the other did… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the woodpecker will show up just to stimulate new rhythms. Rhythm is a powerful means of affecting the physical energies. Sometimes… — Ted Andrews Copy Share Image
'Flappy Bird' was one of those phenomena. If we could all build one now, we would. Probably a bunch of us are… — Chris DeWolfe Copy Share Image
I've just been playing the Trout Quintet on the phonograph. Listening to the andantino makes me want to be a trout myself.… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
Celebration is without any cause. Celebration is simply because we are. We are made out of the stuff called celebration.That's our natural… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Golden eagles have an interesting way of mating, where they connect in the air while flying at eighty miles an hour and… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The endless, useless urge to look on life comprehensively, to take a bird's-eye view of ourselves and judge the dimensions of what… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“About novel Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott. Q: What does the title "Imperfect Birds" mean? It's a line from a poem by… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
[The Yellow Birds] is based on a novel written by Kevin Powers, who is an Iraq War vet. I play a soldier… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part,… — William Booth Copy Share Image
When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky…They will never be the… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
You’re just a young kid. What are you doin’ here? You oughta be out in a convertible, why… bird-doggin’ chicks and bangin’… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image