"Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird."
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"Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels."
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"Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it."
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"Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms."
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"To feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing that we are headed toward ourselves, through millions of stone beings - of bird beings - of star beings - of microbe beings - of fountain beings toward ourselves."
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"Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last."
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"Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked"
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"Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings."
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"The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same time--the sparrow, the robin, the phoebe-bird--are clad in neutral tints, gray, brown, or russet; but the bluebird brings one of the primary hues and the divinest of them all."
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"Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for taste, than a song of a human being which is produced in accordance with all the rules of music; for we very much sooner weary of the latter, if it is repeated often and at length. Here, however, we probably confuse our participation in the mirth of a little creature that we love, with the beauty of its song; for if this were exactly imitated by man (as sometimes the notes of the nightingale are) it would seem to our ear quite devoid of taste."
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"The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten."
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"She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot."
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"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."
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"Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life."
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"Investment is a flighty bird which needs to be controlled."
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"Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!"
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"Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives."
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"Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature."
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"Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body."
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"Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places."
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