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Quote by Gary Snyder

“Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.”

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Gary Snyder is an influential American poet born on May 8, 1930. His poetry, deeply influenced by nature and Zen Buddhism, is considered one of the leading figures in American environmental poetry. more

“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.”

Ifs Men Humans Littles Sometimes Seems Song Human Beings Taste Creatures Bird Ears Notes Musical Latter Length Weary Participation Mirth Nightingales

Book:The Critique of Judgement

Source: The Critique of Judgement

“Know your load. That's rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front of me one at a time. I'm not going to be the schmuck who shows up in Orlando twobirds short of a dinner party....I know I'm pulling out of Houston with exactly forty-two Gentoo penguins, seventeen Jamaican land iguanas, four tuataras from New Zealand, and a pair of rare, civet-like mammals called linsangs. No more, no less.”

Knows Two Shows Party Four Land Fronts Bird Dinner Forty Pairs Load Pulling Seventeen New Zealand Houston Dinner Party Mammals Penguins Orlando Jamaicans Schmucks Iguanas

Author:Jacob M. Appel

“It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds?”

Thousand Bird Eight

Book:Rooftoppers

Source: Rooftoppers

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

Sky Bird Clouds Flying Flight Aviation Overhead

Book:Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass

Source: Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass

“The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.”

Tree Findings Bird Clouds Smooth Soar January

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“They say there were birds who used to soar through the skies like planes.It seems strange that a small animal could achieve anything as complex as human engineering, but the possibility is too enticing to ignore.”

Humans Seems Used Animal Sky Achieve Possibility Strange Bird Complexes Planes Engineering Soar Enticing Small Animals

Author:Tahereh Mafi

“In the woods, if you stopped, if you grew still, you'd hear a whole new set of sounds, wind rasping through silhouetted leaves and the cries and chatter of blue jays and brown thrashers and redbirds and sparrows, the calling of crows and hawks, squirrels barking, frogs burping, the far braying of dogs, armadillos snorkeling through dead leaves.”

Ifs Stills Whole Sound Dog Cry Wind Grew Calling Bird Blue Woods Brown Frogs Crow Hawks Squirrels Sparrows Chatter Armadillos Burping Blue Jays

Author:Tom Franklin

“A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.”

Mean Littles Book Hands Past Suffering Air Bird Slips Bibliophiles

Author:William Lyon Phelps

“It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of the soul, the bird of desire. It is possible I avoided learning the names of composers and their music the better to close my eyes and listen to the mystery of all music as an ocean. It may be I have not learned dates in history in order to reach the essence of timelessness. It may be I never learned geography the better to map my own routes and discover my own lands. The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.”

May Soul Eye Desire Order Names My Own Progress Mystery Land Ocean Bird Essence Paradise Maps Composer Routes Compass Avoided Geography Timelessness Encyclopedia

Author:Anais Nin

“Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter leaving his traces in code, the birds were coming to try it, performing a dance for no one and flying up toward the moon.”

Trying Flower Moon Bird Leaving Flying Code Performing Poison Relics Narcotics Aphrodisiac Elixir

Author:Cesar Aira

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