Flight Quote by John Muir Download Open image “Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.” — John Muir ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Flight Kite Like Seeds Wings
“...of all the seeds that fly about the world, the one with the most solid wings, enabling it to be scattered at the greatest… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Any hawk looking down on the orchard's cloistered square, hoping for the titbit of a beetle or a mouse, would see a patterned canopy… — Jim Crace Copy Share Image
A slight wind shakes the seed-pods my thoughts are spent as the black seeds. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“The boy slept well in the woodland nest where he had laid himself down, in that kind of thin but refreshing sleep which people… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“A sequoia seedling is always a sequoia at every point along its path to becoming a towering tree. And so are you always an… — Ali Binazir Copy Share Image
Someone once told me that children are like kites. You struggle just to get them in the air; they crash; you add a longer… — Charmian Carr Copy Share Image
“Seeds do not make a sound when growing, but can even reach the sky. Learn from them.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
“The oak sleeps in the acorn; the giant sequoia tree sleeps in its tiny seed; the bird waits in the egg; and the Universe… — Michael Samuels Copy Share Image
The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Their [the eggs] physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual wonder to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless a more interesting… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot. — John Muir Copy Share Image
During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half… — John Muir Copy Share Image
...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Here are the roots of all the life of the valleys, and here more simply than elsewhere is the eternal flux of nature manifested.” — John Muir Copy Share Image
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor… — John Muir Copy Share Image
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. — John Muir Copy Share Image
In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is… — John Muir Copy Share Image
My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
Fly flight is just a great phenomenon to study. It has everything - from the most sophisticated sensory biology; really, really interesting physics; really… — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument. — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time and out… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
“You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
