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Bird Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams
- The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind…
- I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward. I pray to…
- Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn, and to sing at dusk, was to…
- I speculate over some of the Anglo nomenclature of birds: Wilson's snipe, Forster's tern . . . : What natural images do these names conjure…
- The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous bite. I sat…
- I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories did…
- I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers,…
- I am slowly, painfully discovering that my refuge is not found in my mother, my grandmother, of even the birds of Bear River. My refuge…
- When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do, of the liberation…
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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
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- 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
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