Quotes About Birds
Shake out the ruffle, turn and go,Over the trellis blow the kiss.Some of the guests will never knowAnother night to shadow this.Some of the birds awake in vinesWill never see another faceSo frail, so lovely anyplaceBetween the birdbath and the bines.
~ James Wright
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We will never be able to whistle as the birds, but in return they will never be able to talk same Like us. So be never unsatisfied but positive For the things to come or going happen. Wij zullen nooit zo kunnen fluiten als de vogels, maar daar tegenover staat dat zij nooit zo zullen kunnen praten als ons. Dus ben nooit ontevreden maar positief voor wat er gaat komen of gebeuren.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
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The windows were open to morning air embroidered with birdsong.
~ Jan Karon
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All day the blanket snapped and swelled on the line, roused by a hot spring wind.... From there it witnessed the first sparrow, early flies lifting their sticky feet, and a green haze on the south-sloping hills. Clouds rose over the mountain....At dusk I took the blanket in, and we slept, restless, under its fragrant weight.
~ Jane Kenyon
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The day is early with birds beginning and the wren in a cloud piping like the child in the poem, drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe. And the place grows bean flower, pea-green lush of grass, swarm of insects dizzily hitting the high spots; dunny rosette creeping covering shawl ream in a knitted cosy of roses; ah the tipsy wee small hours of insects that jive upon the crippled grass blades and the face of the first flower alive.
~ Janet Frame
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I know there is a moment when sound slips down the torn lining of itself into silence, is carried unheard and secret in its own pocket. But the crimson birds could find no such escape, no means of slipping beyond themselves between the cracks of color and song to a white undiscovered silence.
~ Janet Frame
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The sunset was a splendid display. I wondered if it was showing off for my benefit or if it was often that spectacular. Rarely had I seen such a gorgeous scene; the riotous colors flamed out over the sky in shades that I had no words to describe. Birds sang their last songs of the day before tucking in for the night, and still the darkness hung back. Now, I thought, I understand the word "twilight." It was created for just this time - in this land.
~ Janette Oke
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He spent a lot of time flying. He learnt to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with wind speed, wing spans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries. Unfortunately, he discovered, once you have learnt birdspeak you quickly come to realize that the air is full of it the whole time, just inane bird chatter. There is no getting away from it.
~ Duglass Adamss
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And the coolness of your smile is stirringofbirds between my arms
~ e. e. cummings
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Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
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Hark, how the cheerful birds do chaunt their lays, and carol of love's praise.
~ Edmund Spenser
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The houses are far away, the ground is under our feet like an island; invisible, victorious, birds are singing, it's the memory and oblivion of everything, it's St. John's Eve. Our kiss is as harmonious as nature.
~ Albertine Sarrazin
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I don't know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
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you've built your home you've fledged your birds you've beaten the wind with your bones you've finished alone what no one began
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
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Grises pájaros en el amanecer son a la ventana cerrada lo que a mis males mi poema
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
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Yo no sé de pájaros, no conozco la historia del fuego. Pero creo que mi soledad debería tener alas.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik Pizarnik
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When sad she brings the thunder And her tears, they bring the rain When ill she feeds a poison To us all to fell her pain Her smiles they bring the sunshine And the laughter and the wind And the birds they go on singing And the world is whole again. "Smile, sweet Sunday," Wednesday whispered in her ear. "The birds need your love so they can lift their wings.
~ Alethea Kontis
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Look, for once the face of the earth, look, one life in every seed self sacrificed for us, look the sun, shines in us, look the river, flow through us, look the flowers, bloom in our bodies, every fiber and cell of the substances of our bodies vibrating from the birds songs
~ Alexis karpouzos
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Cazador: si vas de caza Por los montes del Señor, Teme que a los pájaros venguen Hondas heridas de amor.
~ Alfonsina Storni
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When I learned about this tragedy that's happening in Midway - you know, these birds whose stomachs are filled with handfuls of our waste - I just felt drawn there magnetically.
~ Chris Jordan
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As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the sky was different, and how the birds chanted different songs in the evening and the morning.
~ Ishmael Beah
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One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing 'The Birds' though a crack in the living-room door. It transformed my hitherto perfectly enjoyable half-mile walk to school, down a country lane patrolled by watchful birds, into a terrifying ordeal.
~ Mariella Frostrup
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I love watching the sunrise and sunset and the sky, the birds.
~ Manisha Koirala
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If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it.
~ Lawrence Hargrave
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