Bird Quotes - Page 25

the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it

The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself.

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

In a bird's eye view you tend to survey everything and decide on a particular point, then you swoop down and pick it up. In a worms eye view you don't have that advantage of looking at everything.

I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything else and I am part of it. I didn't ask to be put here. I've been lucky finding myself here.

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff.

Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns.

The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.

If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.

Fly! There's a lot of sky out there for brave birds.

When the groundhog casts his shadow And the small birds sing And the pussywillows happen And the sun shines warm And when the peepers peep Then it is Spring

Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way.

Some people are mistaken, they think birds need feed to survive, but they don't. The main reason to feed birds is to enjoy them.

The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.

It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds?

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the chicken likes it -- and, more important, I like to give it.

The birds can fly, An' why can't I?

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country.