Abandoned Quote by Leslie Marmon Silko

Across the downs a hummingbird Came dipping through the bowers, He pivoted on emptiness To scrutinize the flowers.

— Nathalia Crane

The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?

— Philip K. Dick

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such…

— Jonathan Franzen

Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we did. They…

— David Attenborough

The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

“The sounds of extinct birds may be preserved in the songs of mockingbirds”

— Jerry Spinelli

When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang up where…

— Eudora Welty

Most elegantly finished in all parts, [the hummingbird] is a miniature work of our Great Parent, who seems to have formed it the smallest,…

— J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

Where have all the flowers gone

— Marlene Dietrich

Hummingbirds are fun and flighty and strange. It's hard to keep them in one place, and Dad was a bit like that.

— Zelda Williams

There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange…

— Rachel Carson