Bird Quotes - Page 6

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have its way.

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face

There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature whose brain and muscles frequently originate movements which suggest flight; and then there are pilots who regardless of their airborne time remain earth-loving bipeds forever. When these latter unfortunates, because of one urge or another, actually make an ascension, they neither anticipate nor relish the event and they drive their machines with the same graceless labor they inflict upon the family vehicle.

Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings. I enjoy the freedom and the altitude. It is only when I return to life below that I feel the world's weight on my shoulders.

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterward I start to tame it, to master it. I bring it under control and I develop it.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love.

Imagine a future where we won't be living in the past. I'd be flipping birds like a chicken breast on a spatula.

What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?

People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.

A fish does not swim it is SWUM. A bird does not FLY it is flown.

No one can know the infinite importance of a tiny drop of water better than a thirsty bird or a little ant or a man of desert!

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Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

So we live in an accelerating possibility curve. Perhaps we can't control it, but we can learn to ride it like a surfer on a wave or a bird on a thermal, to use its power to take us where we want to go - to live in uncertainty and yet act with confidence.

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels.

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.

Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.

I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.