August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds'… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its… — Henry David Thoreau 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
When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best time of… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world.… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Mozart's mental grip never loosens; he never abandons himself to any one sense; even at his most ecstatic moments his mind is… — Walter J. Turner Copy Share Image
Standing on the bridge, looking across at that empty city, everything in the compass of my gaze had been set there by… — Marcel Theroux Copy Share Image
If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed… — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
And in thy own sermon, thou That the sparrow falls dost allow, It shall not cause me any alarm; For neither so… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“There were no ravens to be seen. Abruptly a fox burst out of the trees, running hard. Ravens poured from the branches… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
We heard no other sounds. We met no other people. We saw only two bright red birds leap startled from the center… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats,… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
One of the most humbling gigs I've ever had was I was paid by a neighbor to go get a dead bird… — Walker Hayes Copy Share Image
It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's quiet. No cars. No birds. Nothing.' 'No radio waves,' said the Doctor. 'Not even Radio Four.' 'You can hear radio waves?'… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“The lane was eerily quiet apart from the sound of the whistling wind. Usualy the bird beings would be here singing a… — Chloe Meadows Copy Share Image
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The soul of man, like the bird in the shell, is still growing or ripening in sin or grace, till at last… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
There are a lot of smart creatures out there. Dolphins, elephants, and whales are smart. And there are some really smart birds.… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think… — John Hench Copy Share Image
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
The greatest set shooter ever? Larry Joe Bird. Period. The best coming off screen? Reginald Miller. And the best off the dribble?… — Jalen Rose Copy Share Image
See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner," "A coal miner? Why… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill… — William Ewart Napier Copy Share Image
When I was little, I was like a magpie, which is a bird that's attracted to shiny things. They'll build their nests… — Leslie Jordan Copy Share Image
Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things.… — Bibhu Mohapatra Copy Share Image
Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
We can plant to suit the needs of the birds and other wildlife that find a haven and a habitat on our… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
