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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.

Yes, I will spend the livelong day With Nature in this month of May; And sit beneath the trees, and share My bread with birds whose homes are there; While cows lie down to eat, and sheep Stand to their necks in grass so deep; While birds do sing with all their might, As though they felt the earth in flight.

Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of birds and 'gators, of life in every puddle and pond and knothole and leaf. I Travel By Night

You are daydreaming about the future because you have not tasted the present. Start tasting the present. Find out a few moments where you are simply delighting. Looking at the trees, just be the look. Listening to the birds, just be a listening ear. Let them reach to your deepest core. Let their song spread all over your being.

You are walking in a desert.You hear a bird singing.As absurd as it may seem for a bird to be pending in the desert,you are obligated to make it a tree.That's poem

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

You can fall on your face easily if you go off in a certain direction. The Birds is a good example, some people are really phobic about birds flying over their heads, and some don't care. So, it's a personal thing.

You cannot teach a bird to fly, only how to let go his branch and begin to fall.

You cannot save every fallen bird," said Woolsey. "One will do," said Magnus.

You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.

You folks been following the big British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? I'm telling you, British Petroleum has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders.

You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds." "What, a phobia?" "Sort of." "Well, that's the common term for an irrational fear of birds." "What do they call a rational fear of birds, then?

You have the Super Soaker filled with holy water?” “Yeah. I sucked it out of the church. You know that bird-bath thing they got right up front?” “The baptismal font?” “That’s it. They got it filled with holy water, free for the taking.” “Brilliant,” I said to Lula. She tapped her head with her finger. “No grass growin’ here.

You know what the ideal dove gun for any given day is? Your other-the one you left at home.

You'll know what kind of bird I am when I fly over you.

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.

You have a humming dodo bird," I said stupidly.

You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

You needn't tell a bird it's a bird. Or remind a fish of its purpose. It's only us who lose our way. We have names because we must. - from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter

You never knew what to expect with Ingrid. One minute she could be sawing the locks off Pierpont's freezers; the next, providing shelter for the homeless birds of Switzerland.

Your bird drinks whiskey and eats tobacco?" The old man frowned."Just be lad he doesn't like eatin' scrawny boys that don't know their way 'round the Otherworld.

You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees

You're chasing the dragon, you're chasing the high. A bird with one wing, who's still trying to fly.

You're not the only piece of patchwork birds can pull worms from.

You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.

You said your cousin was a necromancer. You know how the natural necromancers operate?" They twisted the head off your favorite doll, stuffed a dead bird into it, and made it walk around. And then they were puzzled why you got upset.

Your home is your jail, Bird. I'm going to set you free.

You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.

Zen enriches no one. There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while in the place where it is thought to be. But they soon go elsewhere. When they are gone, the "nothing," the "no-body" that was there, suddenly appears. That is Zen. It was there all the time but the scavengers missed it, because it was not their kind of prey.

You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.

You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. You will remember, those of you who were there, how it jerked its wings before dying, and left a spot of blood on the floor after it was removed. But who among you was first to notice the negative bird it left in the window? Who first saw the shadow that the bird left behind, the shadow that drew blood from any finger that dared to trace it, the shadow that was better proof of the bird's existence than the bird ever was?

A bird in a cage is not happy, even if you bought him a golden cage.

A bird doesn't need a parachute when jumping off a cliff.

A bird in a nest is secure, but that is not why God gave it wings.

A bird must have faith in its wings if it wants to fly.

A bird's beauty lies in its feathers, but its strength lies in its wings.

A bird will never take advice from a worm, especially when it is hungry.

A bird with beautiful feathers is the target of many hunters.

A bush-warbler, Coming to the verandah-edge, Left its droppings On the rice-cakes.

A bird has many feathers, but only two wings.

A bird is born knowing how to fly, but has to learn to conquer the skies.

A bird must overcome its fear of heights before it can rule the skies.

A bird cannot conquer the sky inside of its shell, no matter how gifted it is.

A bird doesn't need a professor to teach it how to fly.