For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish… — Empedocles Copy Share Image
When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!" — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
Sometimes happiness is like a bird. The sweeter it sings, the faster it flies away. — Patrick Ngetich Copy Share Image
Everyone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest doesn't become a bird overnight. — Lois Ehlert Copy Share Image
It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they of iron or of gold.” — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I know how the birds fly, how the fishes swim, how animals run. But there is the Dragon. I cannot tell how… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It… — Julie Murphy Copy Share Image
A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Every time I get happy the Nana-hex comes through. Birds turn into plumber's tools, a sonnet turns into a dirty joke, a… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“The night-soil men can see a bird walking in trees. It isn't a bird. It is a woman who has removed her… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses. Creatures differ because they have different… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The glow dies down, and she's standing at the end of my bed--the one who's been following me around leaving feather messages.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Rena noticed me watching it pass. 'You think they don't got problem?' Rena said. 'Everybody got problem. You got me, they got… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
![“It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.” quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/f2e/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_bird_it-was-a-pleasure-and-a-privilege-to-wal_2186632.png)
![“Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What man can enjoy a meal with more gusto than the dog or the cat ? Go to a menagerie and see the [wild animals] tearing the flesh from the bone. Go back and become a bird! . . . What a mistake then…” quote by Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/e85/swami-vivekananda-53_animal_is-enjoyment-the-goal-of-life-were-it-so_2304269.jpg)
