Bird Quotes - Page 3

• Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?

  David Attenborough

  Eye, Ears, World

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• The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: do not the birds set us the example?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Morning, Example, Praise

  Charles Spurgeon (1999). “The Joy in Praising God”, p.20, Whitaker House

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• Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the cage, they do not soar to the ultimate possibility.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Doors

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• Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.

  Mary Ruefle

  Poet, Aspire

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• The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day.Good.They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it?

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Rain, Fall

  Ray Bradbury (2011). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The best thing you can do when you're not feeling funny is go out and get more stimuli from the world, get out and walk around, read a book, go talk to some birds or a dog and replenish the well, as it were.

  Rob Delaney

  Dog, Book, Feelings

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• In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee, Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.

  John Clare

  Song, Sweet, Nature

  John Clare (1821). “The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems”, p.176

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• Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars-and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful.

  Rajneesh

  Nature, Stars, Eye

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• Although birds coexist with us on this eroded planet, they live independently of us with a self-sufficiency that is almost a rebuke. In the world of birds a symposium on the purpose of life would be inconceivable. They do not need it. We are not that self-reliant. We are the ones who have lost our way.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Nature, Self, Would Be

  Brooks Atkinson, American Museum of Natural History (1972). “This bright land: a personal view”

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• And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

  Rajneesh

  Nature, Stars, Ocean

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• The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

  Jonathan Swift

  People, Fruit, Slander

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• Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

  Rose Kennedy

  Adversity, Singing, Storm

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• In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Inspirational, Motivational, Nature

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• If you want to see birds, you must have birds in your heart.

  John Burroughs

  Heart, Want, Ifs

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• We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.

  David Byrne

  Motivation, Inspiration

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• We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Brother, Yoga

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• A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.

  Truman Capote

  Beautiful, Beautiful Day, Buoyancy

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.53, Vintage

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• Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird.

  Willow Smith

  Compare, Comparing Yourself

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• I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Rose, Pits, Way

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• Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur even. They’re so beautiful and nature uses such amazing colors.

  Bibhu Mohapatra

  Beautiful, Intelligent, Color

  "Finding Your Religion With Bibhu". Interview with Alex Geana, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2011.

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• Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

  Charles Bowden

  Blue, Cooking, Gardening

  "The Bone Garden of Desire" by Charles Bowden, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I woke up this morning,
  Smiled at the rising sun,
  Three little birds,
  Sat on my doorstep,
  Singing sweet songs

  Bob Marley

  Song, Sweet, Morning

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• As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Morning, Winter

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.203, Xist Publishing

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• Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.

  Mark Nepo

  Knowing, Flight

  FaceBook post by Mark Nepo from Mar 23, 2012

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• We do express our emotions, our reactions to events, breakups and infatuations, but the way we do that - the art of it - is in putting them into prescribed forms or squeezing them into new forms that perfectly fit some emerging context. That’s part of the creative process, and we do it instinctively; we internalize it, like birds do. And it’s a joy to sing, like the birds do.

  David Byrne

  Breakup, Art, Creative

  David Byrne (2012). “How Music Works”, p.35, Canongate Books

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