For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
This new sport is comparable to no other. It is, in my opinion, one of the most intoxicating forms of sport, and… — Marie Marvingt Copy Share Image
The weeping of the guitar begins. The goblets of dawn are smashed. The weeping of the guitar begins. Useless to silence it.… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Eyes are at rest, the stars are setting. Hushed are the stirrings of birds in their nests, Of monsters in the ocean.… — Rabia Basri Copy Share Image
The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened.… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day… — John Cage Copy Share Image
I've probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it's so simple,… — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
I think taking vacations and turning off the phone and only doing emails or social media for a specific short amount of… — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
In all her products, Nature only develops her simplest germs. One would say that it was no great stretch of invention to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nobody has seen the trekking birds take their way towards such warmer spheres as do not exist, or rivers break their course… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special. — Alan King Copy Share Image
In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't… — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
