Bird Quotes

2421 Bird quotes by 1479 unique authors

In our dreams we have seen another world, an honest world, a world decidedly more fair than the one in which we now live. We… — Subcomandante Marcos
If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics… — Lewis Thomas
Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in… — Scott Cunningham
Don’t bring the ocean if I feel thirsty, nor heaven if I ask for a light; but bring a hint, some dew, a particle, as… — Olav H. Hauge
Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both in mythology and everyday worship.… — Ruskin Bond
My love and I are inventing a country, which we can already see taking shape, as if wheels were passing through yellow mud. But there… — Larry Levis
So we live in an accelerating possibility curve. Perhaps we can't control it, but we can learn to ride it like a surfer on a wave… — Dewitt Jones
To feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing that we are… — Frida Kahlo
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable. — Aberjhani
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… — Henry David Thoreau
Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto… — Samuel Rutherford
It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to… — Swami Vivekananda
Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light. — Mark Nepo
I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers. — Clarice Lispector
Today I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. I will receive the gifts of sunlight and the sound of… — Deepak Chopra
I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it. — Ellen Gallagher
Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality. — Roger Tory Peterson
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped… — Seth Godin
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds,… — Samuel Johnson
I slumbered spring's morning and missed the dawn from everywhere, I heard the cry of birds. That night the sound of wind and rain came.… — Unknown Author
The autumn hill gathers the remaining light, A flying bird chases after its companion. The green color is bright And brings me into the moment,… — Wang Wei
If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses. Creatures differ because they have different likes and dislikes.… — Zhuangzi
It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading. — HalldÃ³r Laxness
I have drawn things since I was 6. All that I made before the age of 65 is not worth counting. At 73 I began… — Hokusai
Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly — Elmer Diktonius

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