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"I was awakened at midnight by some heavy, low-flying bird, probably a loon, flapping by close over my head, along the shore. So, turning the other side of my half-clad body to the fire, I sought slumber again."
"Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?"
"This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting. A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence."
"The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber."
"We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds."
"O lovely river of Yvette! O darling river! like a bride, Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide. O lovely river Yvette! O darling stream! on balanced wings The wood-birds sang the chansonnette That here a wandering poet sings."
"The egg of a bird hatches only when the chick within is ready"
"If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first."
"Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms."
"You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong to no church, perhaps;but otherwise he is just as much a human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's gifts and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground. A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman."
"I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind."
"The person who has the most influence on me is my mother. Think of life as a flight where we fly higher and higher. If I were a bird that needs feathers to fly higher, I would regard my mother as my strongest feather."
"If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I'd say you were crazy."
"I just love to skate. When I put a skate on the ice, I'm free from the world, and I have no problems at all. I am a bird!"
"Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that."
"The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money."
"O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth!"
"Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?"
"A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land."
"Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape."
