Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much… — Leigh Hunt
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… — Henry David Thoreau
Human beings to me are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully. — Wynn Bullock
The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others… — Saadi
Investment is a flighty bird which needs to be controlled. — Sir John Richard Hicks
For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed. — Susan Blackmore
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him,… — Khalil Gibran
A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements. — Leonardo da Vinci
Weeds don't need planting in well-drained soil; they don't ask for fertilizer or bits of rag to scare away the birds. They come without invitation;… — Unknown Author
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered… — Plutarch
If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by… — Lois Duncan
Music is a thing of the soul-a roselipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea-a strange bird singing the songs of another shore. — J. G. Holland
Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their… — Charles Dickens
When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old… — Michael Leunig
Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked — Oscar Wilde
I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want… — Jonathan Franzen
If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without… — Thomas Berry
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American… — Unknown Author
Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the… — Robinson Jeffers
Eighty-two percent of Australia's bird species and two thirds of Australia's mammal species can be found on our (Australian Wildlife Conservancy) reserves. We put teams… — Kristy Hinze

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