Wild Birds Quotes

• As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".

  John Muir

  Nature, Heart, Garden

  John Muir (1999). “To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875”

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• Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

  John Lennon

  Bird

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• ... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.

  William Butler Yeats

  Marriage, Bird, Cages

  William Butler Yeats (2016). “Collected Poems”, p.124, William Butler Yeats

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• See the wild birds on the wing,
  Hear the bells that sweetly ring,
  When you feel like singin', sing--
  Keep a-goin'!

  Frank Lebby Stanton

  Perseverance, Wings, Bird

  Frank Lebby Stanton, “Keep A-Goin'!”

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• I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want these particular species to disappear.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Thinking, Bird, Want

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• The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Heart, Men, Wings

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• Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that something went wrong.

  Jim Elliot

  Environmental Health, Bird, Population

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• Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and the wild birds in her breast climbed to her throat and gathered songless, hovering, all tumult, wing to wing, so ardent for those climes where all things end.

  Mervyn Peake

  Wings, Rose, Bird

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.362, The Overlook Press

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• I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.

  Mike Farrell

  Dog, Army, Squirrels

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• Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in the cries of wild birds. Listen to the whisperings of the wind and the roar of water if you would discover magic, for it is here that the old secrets are preserved.

  Scott Cunningham

  Book, Simple, Wind

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.101, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Ah! the year is slowly dying,
  And the wind in tree-top sighing,
  Chant his requiem.
  Thick and fast the leaves are falling,
  High in air wild birds are calling,
  Nature's solemn hymn.

  Mary Weston Fordham

  Fall, Air, Years

  Mary Weston Fordham, “Passing Of The Old Year”

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• 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

  John Drinkwater

  Dream, Nature, Bird

  John Drinkwater (1919). “Poems, 1908-1919”

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• I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Believe, Bird, Migration

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.44, eKitap Projesi

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• Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite terror touched you at the bone? And you are afraid, terribly afraid the smallest movement, a leaf, say, turning in the wind, will shatter all? That is, I think, the way love is, or should be: one lives in beautiful terror.

  Truman Capote

  Beautiful, Love Is, Thinking

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• There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

  Carl Sandburg

  Clouds, Bird, Woods

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• History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

  Joseph Conrad

  Song, Art, History

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1238, e-artnow

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