"True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething……" — Edward Hoagland
"True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow."
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38 Quotes by Edward Hoagland
Edward Hoagland has 38 quotes on this site.
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Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a…
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It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.
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To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a…
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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this…
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Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in…
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Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.
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If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not…
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Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is…
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Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the…
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There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has…
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The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so,…
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Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have…
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More Birdsong Quotes
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one of 26 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk.…
— Eva Ibbotson
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Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure
— Simon Barnes
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Silent Summer - a never-ending heat wave, devoid of birdsong, insect hum, and all the weird and wonderful living noises…
— Mark Lynas
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Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.
— Rumi
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God was something I did not understand the way kids who went to church did. They said God was a…
— Melissa Coleman
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Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet…
— Wendell Berry
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Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Did you not look upon the world this morning and imagine it as the boy might see it? And did…
— Jamie O'Neill
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A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I woke early like a condemned man to the naivety of birdsong.
— Nick Drake
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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the…
— W. P. Kinsella
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And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song -…
— Michael Frayn
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