Bird Quotes - Page 2

• Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

  Douglas Coupland

  Miracle, May, Strive

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books - Or if it once did, it has changed its plumage, And plunges you back into ignorant gloomage.

  Ogden Nash

  Book, Ignorant, Looks

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• A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Dark, Voice

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• I have been in the field working with my birds for 36 years and I don't think a day goes by that I don't see or learn something new.

  Steve Madden

  Thinking, Years, Fields

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• As the pressure of population increasingly regiments us and crowds us closer together, an association with the wild, winged freedom of the birds will fill an ever growing need in our lives.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Together, Population, Needs

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• Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rain, Tree, Temples

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• If we are in tune with Nature, all her music can find a way into the heart. When bird music is rare, their occasional songs are precious to the ear.

  Frank Bolles

  Song, Nature, Heart

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• The lonely season in lonely lands, when fled Are half the birds, and mists lie low, and the sun Is rarely seen, nor strayeth far from his bed; The short days pass unwelcomed one by one.

  Robert Bridges

  Lonely, Lying, Land

  Elkin Mathews, Laurence Binyon, Robert Bridges, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Richard Watson Dixon (1897). “Garland of New Poetry”

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• I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps

  Thornton Wilder

  Men, Superstitions, Nonsense

  Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Ides of March: A Novel”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• 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.

  Joan Miro

  Mind, Way, Canvas

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• Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all come together again, they blend, they harmonize.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beach, Loss, Self

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• Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

  Lois Lowry

  Nature, Heart, Tree

  Lois Lowry (1983). “Taking Care of Terrific”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Faith

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.585, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Give food to the birds, you will then be surrounded by the wings of love, you will be encompassed by the joys of little silent hearts!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love You, Heart, Wings

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• While I am watching the birds I believe I am comparatively immune from the assaults of life. The very indifference to humanity of these wild creatures affords me a certain safeguard. Where all else is dangerous, hostile and liable to inflict pain, they alone can do me no injury because, probably, they are not even aware of my existence. The birds are at once my refuge and my relaxation.

  Anna Kavan

  Pain, Believe, Humanity

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• A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Silence, Shadow, Red

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be!

  William Morris Hunt

  Writing, Sacrifice, Criticism

  William Morris Hunt (1878). “W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais”

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• Where roads are made I lose my way.In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons.And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Stars, Flower, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)”, p.207, Delphi Classics

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• When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You hurry to get past these obstacles and get to the ocean. But as the creek moves down through the fields, it becomes larges and calmer and it can enjoy the reflection of the sky. It's wonderful. You will arrive at the sea anyway so enjoy the journey. Enjoy the sunshine, the sunset, the moon, the birds, the trees, and the many beauties along the way. Taste every moment of your daily life.

  Nhat Hanh

  Ocean, Moving, Sunset

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• The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Men, Sea, Wings

  Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Rabindranath Tagore, Sigrid Undset, William Butler Yeats (1971). “Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Rabindranath Tagore, Sigrid Undset [and] William Butler Yeats”

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• She told them simply and directly that the meadow was a place of peace and beauty, where indeed if one came to it in a quiet manner, the animals would not be disturbed; for there are lovely birds, and squirrels and field mice, and sometimes deer.

  Kathryn Lasky

  Animal, Squirrels, Lovely

  Kathryn Lasky (2013). “The Royal Diaries: Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769”, p.138, Scholastic Inc.

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• But look around at this world, how perfectly it's made. Flowers can't move, yet the insects come to them and spread their pollen. Trees can't move either, but birds and animals eat their fruit and carry their seeds far and wide.

  Nahoko Uehashi

  Flower, Moving, Animal

  Nahoko Uehashi (2014). “Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit”, p.120, Scholastic Inc.

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• Feed the birds in winter; in return, they will feed your soul with the look of gratitude!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Gratitude, Winter, Soul

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• Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

  Victor Hugo

  Animal, Birds Wings, Knowing

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• I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

  Hafez

  Darkness, Gravity, Lifts

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