Quote by J.A. Baker Download Open image ““The hawkless valley bloomed with the soft voices of the waking owls.”” — J.A. Baker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight woods which no day illustrates, suggesting a vast and undeveloped nature which men have not recognized. They represent the stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. All day the sun has shown on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“[…] and the barred owl calls from the well of my mind, more echo than thought, as it fades through the wind and flickers… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
“The owls may indeed not be what they seem. But they serve as an imperative function: they remind us to look into the darkness.” — Douglas Milford Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I rode north to the big prairie-dog town to watch the brown earth-owls fly home in the late afternoon and go down to… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Last night, the stars on the water were trap doors. The crows with their charred wings are complaining to a hawk. It’s time to… — Richard Jackson Copy Share Image
“I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The time has come, The claws are passed. An old owl rests, A die’s been cast. It is a war for heart, Gizzard and… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
“I can call back the solemn twilight and mystery of the deep woods, the earthy smells, the faint odors of the wild flowers, the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It made no sense naturewise—owls and songbirds work different shifts, and even if they didn’t they would still never be friends.” — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“A bird sings in the morning, an owl hoots at night...it's still a bloody bird.” — Oliver Reed Copy Share Image
“some places, barn owls are considered birds of evil omen, and as such are driven away or killed.” — IC Wildlife Copy Share Image
“Their rapid, shifting, dancing motion had been so deft and graceful that it was difficult to believe that hunger was the cause of it… — J.A. Baker Copy Share Image
“Dark against the bright rust of the dead leaves, an unfledged starling lay flabbily upon its back. It was loose-skinned, helpless, and frog-like. Its… — J.A. Baker Copy Share Image
“For an hour, till greyness covered all, the water shone like milk and mother-of-pearl. The sea breathed quietly, like a sleeping dog.” — J.A. Baker Copy Share Image
“Weak people revenge Strong people forgive Intelligent people ignore Anon.” — J.A. Baker Copy Share Image
“And for the partridge there was the sun suddenly shut out, the foul flailing blackness spreading wings above, the roar ceasing, the blazing knives… — J.A. Baker Copy Share Image
“The unchecked growth of many summers, rising and declining, has lessened the penetration of the light in a way one rarely sees in farmland… — J.A. Baker Copy Share Image
“It is a good life, a seal's, here in these shallow waters. Like the lives of so many air and water creatures, it seems… — J.A. Baker Copy Share Image
“It is an effort to descend down the hand-holds of memory to the plain beneath, to recall the lost future, the dusk hovering above… — J.A. Baker Copy Share Image
“Bar-tailed godwits flying with curlew, with knot, with plover; seldom alone, seldom settling; snuffling eccentrics; long-nosed, loud-calling sea-rejoicers; their call a snorting, sneezing, mewing,… — J.A. Baker Copy Share Image
“The trees did not reflect the sun so much as glow from within, as though their bark was of parchment, a membrane through which… — J.A. Baker Copy Share Image
![“[…] and the barred owl calls from the well of my mind, more echo than thought, as it fades through the wind and flickers away to the silence beyond like that voice, in myself, of another.” quote by John Burnside](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/193/john-burnside-8167_psychology_and-the-barred-owl-calls-from-the-well-o_1331434.jpg)
