There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“There's a problem with wounded birds. Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“If it were only feathers that could transform a sparrow into a peacock" -Liesl "A sparrow is beautiful in its own way.… — S. Jae-Jones Copy Share Image
A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You've got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
The child is born speaking the languages of birds; the child has horns and scales and wings; it has a beak; it… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers,… — Pablo Picasso 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
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
[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
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
Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
Outside his office my father had a framed copy of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to his son's teacher, translated into… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I supply my own angels and demons. I exist on a stony beach, which lowers itself in waves toward a protective ocean.… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
“The falcon’s beak carries bits of me, myself,” the desert said. “For years, I care for his game, feeding it with the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
When on a summer's morn I wake, And open my two eyes, Out to the clear, born-singing rills My bird-like spirit flies.… — W. H. Davies Copy Share Image
...A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Peter stood, cleared his throat, and began to hum softly, then sing, slowly building up the song as his voice cleared. He… — Brom Copy Share Image
Birds are flyin' south for winter. Here's the Weird-Bird headin' north, Wings a-flappin', beak a-chatterin', Cold head bobbin' back 'n' forth. He… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
“Tradition whispers that in the sky is a bird, blue as the sky itself, which brings to its finders happiness. But everyone… — Venice J. Bloodworth Copy Share Image
In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
“The parrot had a range of phrases. His own name ('Niko, Niko'), the name of his original owner and now 'Stavros'. Occasionally… — Victoria Hislop Copy Share Image
“There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
“owls are the most courteous, single—hearted and faithful creatures living. You must never be familiar, rude or vulgar with them, or make… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth.… — Katherine Catmull Copy Share Image
...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Anyway, I'm digressing, but this is just kind of this 10-and-a-half-minute, ambient - you hear cicadas and birds and the wind outside… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
When I look at birds and animals, their survival is without rules, without conditions, without organization. But mothers take good care of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Percy France told me, similarly, he and Bird used to hang out. They were good buddies. And he said, "Man, we'd just… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
“The bird does not have an instinct to fly South in winter without a real South to match it; nor has the… — Orison Swett Marden 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/quotes/i/08a/alexander-pope-235_air_t-hro-this-air-this-ocean-and-this-earth_2600239.png)
![“In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren't pretty or delightful, but they were magical, [...] They called her a dancer and a puppeteer and an artist. They might have called her a witch, and…” quote by Katherine Catmull](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74d/katherine-catmull-33506_artist_in-her-dance-she-controlled-the-bright-p_1312701.jpg)
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