Birds Quotes

1423 Birds quotes by 965 unique authors

These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter of the forests,… — Henry Van Dyke
Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds? — Henry David Thoreau
What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be… — Thomas Huxley
A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a hundred peaks and… — Kenneth Rexroth
Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills. — Leonardo da Vinci
Openly I whispered and breathed a big gulp of air and saw all the beautiful trees and birds which surrounded me. The morning was beautiful… — Unknown Author
I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the… — Morgan Freeman
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting… — George Eliot
We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds… — Robert R. McCammon
Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds and squirrels and… — John Burroughs
What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get… — Jack Handey
Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of… — Leonardo da Vinci
My boy is a mean kid. I came home the other day and saw him taping worms to the sidewalk, he sits there and watches… — Rodney Dangerfield
Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and… — Lucretius
Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape. — Michel de Montaigne
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting… — Charles Darwin
Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the… — Paulo Coelho
We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars… — Thomas Berry
Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead… — Roger Tory Peterson
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts since… — Henri Poincare
The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep. — Victor Hugo
Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you,… — Mother Teresa
Awareness means to listen to me unfocused - alert of course, not fallen asleep, but alert to these birds, their chirping, alert to the wind… — Rajneesh
Never look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last. — Miguel de Cervantes

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