Jim Harrison Quotes About Birds

Quotes about: Birds

• Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the bodies of birds.I'll be a simple crowwho can reach the top of Antelope Butte.(From: Hard Times)

  Jim Harrison

  Hard Times, Simple, Names

• This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and fresh eggs giving one of the yolks to Lola. Listening to NPR and grieving more recently over the absence of Bob Edwards who was the sound of morning as surely as birds. Reading a paragraph or two of Emerson or Loren Eiseley to raise the level of my thinking. Going out to feed the cattle if it was during our six months of bad weather.

  Jim Harrison

  Morning, Reading, Coffee

• When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.

  Jim Harrison

  Children, Bird, Wish

  Jim Harrison (2007). “True North”, p.139, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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