Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

“Imagine a flock of pigeons in a corn field. Imagine that ninety-nine of them, instead of pecking the corn they need and using it…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have…

— Henry David Thoreau

“There must be transients in the bird world too, rumple-feathered outcasts that naturally seek out each other’s company in inferior and dying trees.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“In spite of all the farmer's work and worry, he can't reach down to where the seed is slowly transmuted into summer. The earth…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“a world in which no sparrow falls unknown, but-so much for the neatness of our diagrams-it is the Father's will that sparrows fall.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

“Be like a sparrow aspiring to be an ostrich, and I’ll be like a cowboy with no horse looking for a speedy land runner…

— Jarod Kintz

... it is one thing to sow your wild oats in talk, and quite another to live by your own kaleidoscopic paradoxes.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

“Some things are hurrying into existence and others are hurrying out of it and of that which is coming into existence, part is already…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and…

— Oscar Wilde

“Because my readers, perhaps more than anyone else’s, might be inspired to head out to the pasture with a lighter in their pocket and…

— Mary Roach

“From Eden’s bowers the full-fed rivers flow, To guide the outcasts to the land of woe: Our Earth one little toiling streamlet yields. To…

— George MacDonald

“That is how a farmer walks across the soil in spring--and later, in summer, the traces of his steps are obscured by the billowing…

— Joseph Roth