Birds Quotes

1423 Birds quotes by 965 unique authors

People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes. — Mignon McLaughlin
Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few birds… — E. O. Wilson
Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds. — Roger Tory Peterson
Birds never sing in caves. — Henry David Thoreau
Meditate, oft. Separate thyself for a season from the cares of the world. Get close to nature and learn from the lowliest of that which… — Edgar Cayce
Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then;… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Meditation is totally different. When you concentrate you close your mind to everything else. Meditation means just an openness, a relaxed openness. It is not… — Rajneesh
Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, birds, and trees.… — Ram Dass
God is not a person at all. You cannot worship God. You can live in a godly way but you cannot worship God - there… — Rajneesh
Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their way of expressing… — Paul Brunton
A Buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. He has not been trying to narrow down his consciousness; on… — Rajneesh
Meditation, witnessing, silently sitting and looking at the mind, will be of much help. Not forcing, simply sitting and looking. Not doing much, just watching… — Rajneesh
My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty one. — Bob Hope
Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should… — Martin Luther
Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the chesty… — Terry Kay
Go to bed when summers ends, what a good idea; wake up bright and early when birds announce its spring. — Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire
All who ask receive, those who seek find, and to those who knock it shall be opened. Therefore, let us knock at the beautiful garden… — John of Damascus
The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by. As if they loved to breast the breeze that sweeps the cool clear… — William C. Bryant
Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones… — H. Bentley Glass
There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which some birds acquire… — Paul Bartsch
Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds. — Barnett Newman
A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great… — Zitkala-Sa
Take whatever cause for outward happiness you might have and take it within yourself, so that, if the sun should go out, you will not… — Goswami Kriyananda
There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that… — Friedrich Nietzsche
At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing… — Henry Ward Beecher

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