"Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?"
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"Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers."
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"You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs."
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"We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved; time, which keeps her from him, is his chest; the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament"
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"Your home is your jail, Bird. I'm going to set you free."
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"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."
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"scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed."
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"Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry."
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"At a very early stage of the novel's development I get this urge to collect bits of straw and fluff, and to eat pebbles. Nobody will ever discover how clearly a bird visualizes, or if it visualizes at all, the future nest and the eggs in it."
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"Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music."
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"It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds."
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"Every single song has its own individual character and you can't treat each song the same way, because it wants to be treated differently and there are songs that are like scared birds that you have to sneak up on over the course of months in the woods."
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"If you do not have a loving concern for the environment... it will no longer sustain you - you will not be worthy of it. You will not be destroying the planet, you see. You will not be destroying the birds, or the flowers, or the grain, or the animals... they will be destroying you."
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"This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting."
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"Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it"
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"I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day."
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"A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune."
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"What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying."
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"Let us not try to understand music with our mind. Let us not even try to feel it with our heart. Let us simply and spontaneously allow the music-bird to fly in our heart-sky. While flying, it will unconditionally reveal to us what it has and what it is. What it has, is Immortality's message. What it is, is Eternity's passage."
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"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep."
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