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“Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.”

States Science Song United Silence Beauty Morning United States Return Spring Bird Areas Filled Silent Environmental Pollution Early Morning Silent Spring Early Bird Bird Song

Author:Rachel Carson

“the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.”

Stars Beauty Bird Skins Footprint Moss

Book:A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.”

Has Beens Reason Animal Beauty Forever Rich Taken Color Depends Bird Constitution Insects Arbitrary Inseparable

Book:The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.”

Made Certain Song House Strong Rooms Beauty Grace Tree Please Taste Standards Bird Rivers Weak Relation Dresses Prose Verses Discourse Good Taste

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.”

Source: Nature and Other Writings

“Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.”

Life Beautiful Spirit Beauty Creativity Bird Paint Flying Feathers Inspirational Artist

Author:Robert Henri

“Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.”

“Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty is joy that stays not overlong. Clad in the magic of sincerities, It rides up in a song. Beauty imposes chastenings on the heart, Grave as the birds in last solemnities Assembling to depart.”

Heart Lasts Joy Song Beauty Magic Spring Bird Wounds Graves Urges Sincerity Reverence Solemnity Assembling

Author:Shaw Neilson

“Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.”

Men Beauty Bird Gold Old Man Cages Her Beauty Gilded

Author:Arthur J. Lamb