Song in the Manner of Housman" O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither… — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
My boy is a mean kid. I came home the other day and saw him taping worms to the sidewalk, he sits… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
Look, in particular, at the people who, like you, are making average incomes for doing average jobs- bank vice presidents, insurance salesmen,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“He went along the corridor to the tiny spare room at the back of the house and looked down into the gardens… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage,… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
“Always keep believing, hoping, seeking, working, helping, forgiving, understanding and loving and your life will be meaningful. But don’t forget to be… — Lord Robin Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
December stillness, teach me through your trees That loom along the west, one with the land, The veiled evangel of your mysteries.… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
God's terrible face brighter than a spoon collects the image of one fatal word;so that my life(which liked the sun and the… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part,… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“Felice admires the long blue tails of the birds just before they vanish into the trees. That's the way to be, she… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
To the bird watcher, the suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter, the fisherman or the explorer of… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“What’s reality? I don’t know. When my bird was looking at my computer monitor I thought, ‘That bird has no idea what… — Terry A. Davis 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
Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map.… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Standing here, in this quiet house where I can hear the birds chirping out back, I think I’m kind of getting the… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
They trekked out along the crescent sweep of beach, keeping to the firmer sand below the tidewrack. They stood, their clothes flapping… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
The engine roared to life. He ran toward her. She shot our of her parking space. He rushed to the side of… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Today I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. I will receive the gifts of sunlight and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
One who loves must learn fear. One who fears must learn love. The thinker must do. The doer must think. The pacifist… — Menachem Mendel Schneerson Copy Share Image
That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me… But others more experienced also did not know of… — Christopher Cokinos Copy Share Image
“One day he trapped a large raven, whose wings he painted red, the breast green, and the tail blue. When a flock… — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
I believe in you and me. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
It couldn't be an all-bad world, could it, not with birds who warble and call? Maybe that was the secret - to… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars,… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In one period the grossest ignorance and barbarism prevailed in the world; and afterwards, in a more enlightened age, the most daring… — William Carey Copy Share Image
We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“The wise ones say, it’s easy to be critical, find fault & stir up the negative. That’s being a Crow. But, you’re… — Rajesh Goyal, राजेश गोयल Copy Share Image
