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Quotes About Nesting

Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity.
~ Ray Bradbury
Sadly, one of the few places where bumblebees generally won't settle is in the bumblebee nest boxes widely sold in garden centres. Whatever
~ Dave Goulson
Large duck eggs have also been hatched by turkeys, chickens, and small geese. Any chicken that is a faithful "broody" can work.
~ Dave Holderread
When chickens or turkey hens are used to hatch duck eggs, they should be treated for lice and mites several days before their setting chores commence.
~ Dave Holderread
Attention all kitchen utensils, unfinished books, "useless childhood artifacts," and general household objects: take heed. Colette Yates is nesting. None of you are safe.
~ Aimee Molloy
Wrong Pauley made sure no one was around before he started down the alleyway toward his burrow. His nightly nesting spot didn't qualify as a Hobbit hole, or even a rabbit hole. It was a hollow in the midst of a strip of ice plant above a cinderblock
~ Alan Russell
The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.
~ Carey Mulligan
Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting.
~ Faith Popcorn
I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.
~ Gladys Taber
The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
~ Tamsin Egerton
Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix.
~ Gail Collins
Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
~ Black Elk
You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.
~ Cynthia Lewis
Her breast is fit for pearls, But I was not a Diver - Her brow is fit for thrones But I have not a crest, Her heart is fit for home- I- a Sparrow- build there Sweet of twigs and twine My perennial nest.
~ Emily Dickinson
The good thing about being pregnant is I get to be home more.
~ Brie Bella
The sun is shining, there's provisions, it's nesting season, the chooks are laying and we have peat for the fire; I genuinely don't see what you're worried about.
~ Jenny Colgan
It's very common for people coming from a broken home to want material possessions around them. They are building their own nests.
~ Andrew Morton
It's very common for people coming from a broken home to want material possessions around them. They are building their own nests.
~ Andrew Morton
A brown trout sips one off the surface. Beneath the trout, mica-flecked sand gleams white. Come fall the female's caudal fin will nudge the grains to make a nest, the eggs spilling like pearls into a purse.
~ Ron Rash
Care has nested in the heart's depths, Restless, she rocks there, spoiling joy and rest, [645] There she works her secret pain, And wears new masks, ever and again, Appears
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
the origin of eusociality requires the preadaptation of a constructed and guarded nest site.
~ Edward O. Wilson
Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flowers of grass, What we below could not see, Winter pass.
~ Edward Thomas
Where inside them does awe arise? Soul is a place- the innermost Russian nesting doll.
~ Anne Lamott