First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Candleford Green was but a small village and there were fields and meadows and woods all around it. As soon as Laura… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they're written in a dictionary. Identities aren't always separate and distinct. Sometimes they… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his hammer is dead or… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Do you have a pet bird?' I asked, looking around the room. 'Oh, heavens, no. I'd never cage a bird. I can't… — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
Ask of Her, the mighty Mother. Her reply puts this other Question: What is Spring?- Growth in every thing - Flesh and… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
January cold and desolate; February dripping wet; March wind ranges; April changes; Birds sing in tune To flowers of May, And sunny… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which… — Paul Bartsch Copy Share Image
The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair as the guardian of the Capitol,… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Tony stood his ground for a hot minute. Pete rolled up his window. Antonia Soria’s six dogs snarled and circled, their hackles… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The bird that plucks its own feathers cannot blame the wind for its chill. The tree that bends willingly cannot fault the… — Monika Ajay Kaul Copy Share Image
Throughout all of human history we have consumed the natural world. All creatures do. Birds do. Fish do. Earthworms do. We consume… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
When you are happy you are ordinary, because to be happy is just to be natural. To be miserable is to become… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts,… — Massasoit Copy Share Image
“Wild Geese" You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“He walked outside onto the terrace and sat. Obviously settled and comfortable, he poured coffee. There were ways and ways to gain… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
A novel it's different. It's kind of exhilarating not to have to cut to the bone constantly. Oh, well I can go… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I remember on Thanksgiving all the kids wanted the drumstick. There were four of us then. Well, today you can go into… — Pat Cooper Copy Share Image
I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
Most birds were created to fly. Being grounded for them is a limitation within their ability to fly, not the other way… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
We all have some flaws. But when I have a moment of doubt, I find inspiration from being in the moment, by… — Mickalene Thomas Copy Share Image
Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky; The May-thorn greening in the nook; The minnows sporting in… — David Macbeth Moir Copy Share Image
“Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
The birds laugh loud and long together When Fashion's followers speed away At the first cool breath of autumn weather. Why, this… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
To feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“and there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
“A falcon. I can see that. I thought you said nothing lived here?” Sand’s face went blank. “There was nothing alive, except… — Merrie Haskell Copy Share Image
Tonight, the moon came out, it was nearly full. Way down here on earth, I could feel it's pull. The weight of… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do?… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It's a very small object to be capable of doing many wonderful things, don't you think?" "It does much more that that,"… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
