Top 1200 Wild Birds Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.
Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.
Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp - everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
Game-keepers on grouse moors control common predators such as foxes and crows and this gives wading birds a much greater chance of breeding successfully.
Yes," I say. "Three of these flying birds." I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight - toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind.
She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes
Cats, dogs, and some I mean, birds, many species of mammals, they also have the sort of potential to show affection firstly because of the biological factor.
I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.
I am fascinated by air. If you remove the air from the sky, all the birds would fall to the ground. And all the planes, too.
Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way and not the way one was taught.
I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe- at least that is what I then felt.
It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.
We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.
Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn't escape the city. I like to wake and hear birds tweeting, not the low drone of traffic.
People think they know me from somewhere, and then I open my mouth and they realise it's me from Birds Of A Feather.
The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.
A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.
Along with rising and falling water, winter is the province of wind. When the sea-breath and mountain-roar bend the hemlocks of these hills, the birds hang on as best they can.
In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.
You can never control a wild heart no matter how hard you try.
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
I don’t know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings
Showers and sunshine bring,
Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth;
To put their foliage out, the woods are slack,
And one by one the singing-birds come back.
Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden-in all the places.
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
The only durable community is the one that embraces the whole planet, wild and tame . . .
Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover.
Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room searched first for a gun. You couldn't take any chances with some of them birds.
It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.
My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant.
With a few exceptions, birds are not to be trusted; it is not normal to have such soft, vulnerable bodies bookended with slashing beaks and razor-sharp claws. It is as unnatural as an armed marshmallow.
My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.
We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.
That is how I think of peace and peace of mind-as timid birds that we have to search for, not bold ones that come looking for us.
Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude
Life is a series of ups and clowns. Make it worth your wild!
There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.
The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense
I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.
Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
The fall of waters and the song of birds,
And hills that echo to the distant berds,
Are luxuries excelling all the glare
The world can boast, and her chief favorites share.
From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.
Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.
One day I'm going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do....is to watch these birds.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms.
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.
The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation.
Strictly speaking, one never 'keeps' bees - one comes to terms with their wild nature.
He was a hot, hot former priest and she wanted to pull a Thorn Birds on his ass.
It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
There's a part of every woman that wants to be some wild seductress or superhero.
There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.
But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin from their dark to sing in my sleep.
