Birds Quotes

1423 Birds quotes by 965 unique authors

Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly — Elmer Diktonius
What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds. — Jack Gilbert
Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we… — Bo Lozoff
The only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know it. The birds… — Dalai Lama
As a body in a world, here is our choice: we can be more loving or less loving. That's it. We can relax as the… — David Deida
Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a… — Pema Chodron
You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight… — Ian Holloway
She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all… — John Milton
In my opinion, if most urban meat-eaters were to visit an industrial broiler house, to se how the birds are raised, and could see the… — Peter Cheeke
I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in… — John Ruskin
All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons. — Alan Coren
Why who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know nothing else but miracles, whether they be animals feeding in the fields, Or,… — Walt Whitman
Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not… — Douglas Coupland
Danish studies of 10,000 birds killed revealed that almost all died in collisions with buildings, cars and wires; only 10 were killed by windmills. Alternative… — David Suzuki
That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls,… — William Butler Yeats
Celebration is without any cause. Celebration is simply because we are. We are made out of the stuff called celebration.That's our natural state - to… — Rajneesh
This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind...just being herenow...being with the trees and the birds… — Rajneesh
When not protected by law, by popular favor or superstition, or by other special circumstances, [birds] yield very readily to the influences of civilization, and,… — George Perkins Marsh
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to… — Thomas Merton
WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The water lies broken,… — James Salter
The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
My iPhone has 2 million times the storage of the 1969 Apollo 11 computer. They went to the moon. I throw birds at pig houses — Bill Murray
The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music. — George Crumb
In a world of such beauty as birds in flight, surely I can come to feel at home again, even after my loss. — Martha Whitmore Hickman
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking… — David Whyte

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