Birds Quotes

1423 Birds quotes by 965 unique authors

Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty is joy that stays not… — Unknown Author
The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in… — Black Elk
Away from the tumult of motor and mill I want to be care-free; I want to be still! I'm weary of doing things; weary of… — Edgar Guest
Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures. — Elizabeth Goudge
It's always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone. — John McCain
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. — Georges Bernanos
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this… — Lydia M. Child
Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I held a blue flower in my hand, probably a wild aster, wondering what its name was, and then thought that human names for natural… — Unknown Author
Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much… — Leigh Hunt
The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the… — Henry David Thoreau
Human beings to me are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully. — Wynn Bullock
Weeds don't need planting in well-drained soil; they don't ask for fertilizer or bits of rag to scare away the birds. They come without invitation;… — Unknown Author
Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their… — Charles Dickens
Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked — Oscar Wilde
I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want… — Jonathan Franzen
If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without… — Thomas Berry
Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the… — Robinson Jeffers
Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have either fled or… — Peter Cundall
The really intelligent person keeps his childhood alive to his last breath.He never loses it-the wonder the child feels looking at the birds,looking at the… — Rajneesh
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless… — Victor Hugo
That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a… — Emily Perkins
We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds. — Otto Lilienthal
Birds in flight, claims the architect Vincenzo Volentieri, are not between places - they carry their places with them. We never wonder where they live:… — Geoff Dyer

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