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Bird Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?
- Birds never sing in caves.
- The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the…
- He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.
- What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.
- Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear it…
- As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love…
- As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.
- This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have…
- We have used up all our inherited freedom, like the young bird the albumen in the egg. It is not an era of repose. If…
- Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when…
- Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow covers the ground,…
- One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five…
- When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early…
- The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I…
- A gun will give you the body, not the bird
- My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the…
- It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies,…
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- It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you. — Abu Bakr
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- What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California condor. — Roseanne Barr
- I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. — James M. Barrie
- I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. — Lynda Barry
- A fish may love a bird, but where would they live? — Drew Barrymore