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Birds 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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- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon
- It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you. — Abu Bakr
- I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. — Lynda Barry
- As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural… — John Adams
- Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned. — William Bartram
- The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see… — Eric Berne
- There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but… — Henry Ward Beecher
- I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. — George Best
- Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody. — Eubie Blake