“Win or lose, the crows always laughed--the hard, old jaded laughter that came of looking at the world with a black and… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
“. . . . the materials for the nest must be collected and woven strand by strand . . . . Such… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I watched her and I watched the birds' shadows flit across her face, and I...wanted. I wanted more happy memories to hang… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“There is a legend about a bird which sings only once in it's life, more beautifully than any other creature on the… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The renaissance of the NBA in the 80s was due to the racial proxy battle between charming, good looking and unmistakably Black… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The eagle had two natural enemies: storms and serpents. He embraced the storm, waiting on the rock for the right thermal current… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
There are things you can’t reach. But You can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“He'd watched a falcon fall down the long blue wall of the mountain and break with the keel of its breastbone the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It occurs to me one evening as I'm feeding the birds that all I did was put two birds in the aviary,… — William Wharton Copy Share Image
I transmit astral plane harmonies through my brushes into the physical plane. These otherworld colours are reflected in the alphabet of nature,… — Norval Morrisseau 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
“Thirty yards from shore, three black swans were gliding over the water, so serene … no one had told them that war… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind.… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
He's bent over the strings tuning his guitar with such passionate attention I almost feel I should look away but I can't.… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“I met a boy and he told me a story. There was a lady long ago who spent her life coughing up… — Charlotte McConaghy Copy Share Image
That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight… — Emily Perkins Copy Share Image
Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Chihulys are the pigeons of Seattle. They’re everywhere, and even if they don’t get in your way, you can’t help but build… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
The first comedians I became fascinated with were the Marx brothers. I couldn't get enough of them. Later in life, I thought,… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
For me - showing a half-finished manuscript is tricky. Just as a bird will get spooked and abandon her eggs if some… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound.… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“ Caged Bird A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“An eagle swooped low over the field, passing by not far from him, and he wished, with the same terrible, helpless fury… — Gretchen Felker-Martin Copy Share Image
How do you view God in a desert? There's two types of birds. There's vultures, and there's hummingbirds. One lives off dead… — Brian Houston Copy Share Image