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“When human body itself is made of flesh, where is the need to consume the flesh of birds and animals? You should partake of only sacred food. Only then you will have sacred feelings.”

Needs Should Humans Made Feelings Body Animal Bird Sacred Flesh Human Body

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“There is a thing, like a bird, weak and fluttering within my chest, i cradle it and care for it as anyone should an injured thing, yet, i silently pray for it's death.”

Should Care Praying Bird Weak Chests Injured Cradle Fluttering

Author:Gabriel Macht

“China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird flu is an important target of the organization, which includes Russia, China and four Central Asian states.”

Should Important States Effort Four Serious Members Disease Bird Organization China Russia Target Combat Cooperation Asian Flu Prevention Infectious Diseases Bird Flu

Author:Wen Jiabao

“These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the 'good' and the 'bad,' to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil-all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called 'insecticides,' but 'biocides.'”

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“My Faith is larger than the Hills— So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wheel To show the Sun the way— 'Tis first He steps upon the Vane— And then — upon the Hill— And then abroad the World He go To do His Golden Will— And if His Yellow feet should miss— The Bird would not arise— The Flowers would slumber on their Stems— No Bells have Paradise— How dare I, therefore, stint a faith On which so vast depends— Lest Firmament should fail for me— The Rivet in the Bands”

Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them

“Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my casement sing, Though it should prove a farewell lay And this our parting spring. * * * * * Then, little Bird, this boon confer, Come, and my requiem sing, Nor fail to be the harbinger Of everlasting spring.”

Should Littles Failing Prove Spring Bird Lays Farewell Cheerful Everlasting Parting Robins Boon Harbinger Requiem

Author:William Wordsworth

“A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds.”

Should Bird Flight

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer and heard the rustling of the leaves and the warbling of the birds, and these were all to me, I should have wept to die; now it is my only consolation. Polluted by crimes and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?”

World Should Years Firsts Dies Felt Heard Crime This World Summer Bird Years Ago Should Have Warmth Cheer Torn Consolation Remorse

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.”

Should Wish Grows Tree Bird Fruit Shade Household Sigh

Author:George Herbert

“The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white As powder on a mummy's face, Or fawned with simian grace Round booths with many a hard bright toy And wooden brittle joy: The cap and bells of Time the Clown That, jangling, whistled down Young cherubs hidden in the guise Of every bird that flies; And star-bright masks for youth to wear, Lest any dream that fare Bright pilgrim past our ken, should see Hints of Reality.”

Source: The canticle of the rose: poems: 1917-1949

“May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them - then men are old.”

Ifs Knows Men Should Heart May Littles Secret My Heart Bird

Author:e. e. cummings

“The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.”

Should Art Artist Mines Theory Bird Coal Alarms Treasured Canaries

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.”

Ifs World Should Animal Bird Animal Rights Cages

Author:Isak Dinesen

“It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.”

Should Littles Law Greatness Bird Intellect Flight Solitary Laws Of Nature Pursued Petulance

Book:Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

“Now, if we understand what unlucky persons are, we shall see that they are to be shunned, or that we are to consort with them only out of kindness or from sympathy, but without joining our interests with theirs; for they are persons who are not harmonious with the condition of things around them, and are as much at issue with life as a bird who should try to live in the water, or a fish to float in the air.”

Ifs Should Trying Persons Interest Water Kindness Issues Air Conditions Bird Luck Fishes Floats Joining Harmonious Unlucky

Author:James Vila Blake

“Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. Thats it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.”

Knows Should Dies Stuff Animal Tree Flower Bird Comes And Goes

Author:Joanna Lumley

“Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we did. They can survive in the hottest of deserts. Some can remain on the wing for years at a time. They can girdle the globe. Now, we have taken over the earth and the sea and the sky, but with skill and care and knowledge, we can ensure that there is still a place on Earth for birds in all their beauty and variety - if we want to... And surely, we should.”

Ifs Want Should Years Long Stills Care Earth Taken Sea Sky Skills Bird Wings Flying Variety Desert Continents Globes Hottest Antarctica Girdles

Author:David Attenborough

“"And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call her so, and she gone where YOU won't go in a hurry - because you had not done wrong enough to her and hers, you must begin to train her, must you? begin to break her, like a poor caged bird, and wear her deluded life away, in teaching her to sing YOUR notes?"”

Love Should Littles Made Said Done Enough Poor Break Gone Teaching Fool Bird Forgiving Train Notes Aunt Forgive Me Deluded Caged God Forgives Caged Birds God Forgive Me

Book:David Copperfield

Source: David Copperfield

“They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put this book here for you, who once lived So that you should visit us no more.”

Should Book Used Bird Seeds Graves Poppies

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do because first, they take you into the fields. There is mild exercise, the kind that an older individual probably should have. And on top of it, it induces you to take at any one time 2 or 3 hours, if you can, where you are thinking of the bird or that ball or the wily trout. Now, to my mind it is a very healthful, beneficial kind of thing, and I do it whenever I get a chance, as you well know.”

“The torments of hell abide for ever.... If all the earth and sea were sand, and every thousandth year a bird should come, and take away one grain of this sand, it would be a long time ere that vast heap of sand were emptied; yet, if after all that time the damned may come out of hell, there were some hope; but this word EVER breaks the heart.”

Source: A Body of Practical Divinity Consisting of Above One Hundred and Seventy-six Sermons on the Shorter Catechism Composed by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster: With a Supplement of Some Sermons on Several Texts of Scripture Together with the Art of Divine Contentment ; to which is Added, Christ's Various Fulness

“To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should dehumanize ourselves, feel the feel of feathers on our body and wind in our wings, and finally know what it is to leave abundance and safety and daylight and yield to a compelling instinct, age-old, seeming at the time quite devoid of reason and object.”

Knows Feels Should Writing Reason Body Age Objects Wind Bird Safety Wings Instinct Oneself Conviction Honestly Abundance Yield Compelling Feathers Daylight Seeming Migration

Book:A Naturalist's Life of New York

Source: A Naturalist's Life of New York

“Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world. Jesus used these images to illustrate His kingdom.: a sprinkle of yeast causing the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt preserving a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden growing into a great tree in which birds of the air come to nest.”

World Should Matter Whole Used Jesus Church Practice Growing Air Tree Week Effects Bird Garden Should Have Seeds Kingdoms Meat Salt Smallest Nests Contagious Sprinkles Yeast Slabs

Author:Philip Yancey

“One thing that influenced me in the States when I was doing this recording was American people feeding me things like Arnold Dreyblatt, even things I should've heard back in New Zealand like Peter Jefferies and Jono Lonie 'At Swim 2 Birds.”

People Should States One Thing Heard Bird Swim Peter Feeding New Zealand

Author:Roy Montgomery

“Children should be encouraged to search out in nature the objects that illustrate Bible teachings, and to trace in the Bible the similitudes drawn from nature. They should search out, both in nature and in Holy Writ, every object representing Christ, and those also that He employed in illustrating truth. Thus may they learn to see Him in tree and vine, in lily and rose, in sun and star. They may learn to hear His voice in the song of birds, in the sighing of the trees, in the rolling thunder, and in the music of the sea. And every object in nature will repeat to them His precious lessons.”

“People should relate to nature as birds do. Birds don't run around carefully preparing fields, planting seeds, and harvesting food. They don't create anything . . . they just receive what is there for them with a humble and grateful heart.”

People Should Heart Running Fields Bird Grateful Humble Seeds Relate Preparing Grateful Heart Planting Seeds

Author:Masanobu Fukuoka

“It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.”

Should Matter Morning Bird Shame Awake Caliphs

Author:Abu Bakr

“Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.”

Men Want Should Inspiring Bird Should Have Hug Cages Wire Girdles Bird Cage

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite terror touched you at the bone? And you are afraid, terribly afraid the smallest movement, a leaf, say, turning in the wind, will shatter all? That is, I think, the way love is, or should be: one lives in beautiful terror.”

Thinking Way Should Beautiful Love Is Sky Movement Wind Bird Terror Bones Landscape Touched Wilderness Smallest Leafs Exquisite Dusk Wonderland Wild Birds

Author:Truman Capote

“may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not hear them men are old may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if it's sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young and may myself do nothing usefully and love yourself so more than truly there's never been quite such a fool who could fail pulling all the sky over him with one smile”

Ifs Knows Men Should Mind Heart May Littles Young Secret Failing Sky Fool My Heart Bird And Love Hungry Fearless Sunday Love Yourself Pulling Thirsty Supple

Book:100 Selected Poems

Source: 100 Selected Poems

“it may not always be so; and i say that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch another's, and your dear strong fingers clutch his heart, as mine in time not far away; if on another's face your sweet hair lay in such a silence as i know,or such great writhing words as, uttering overmuch, stand helplessly before the spirit at bay; if this should be, i say if this should be- you of my heart, send me a little word; that i may go unto him, and take his hands, saying, Accept all happiness from me. Then shall i turn my face,and hear one bird sing terribly afar in the lost lands.”

Ifs Knows Should Heart May Littles Hands Faces Spirit Turns Lost Strong Silence Accepting Land Mines Sweet Hair My Heart Bird Lays Fingers Lips Dear Be You Far Away Afar Clutch

Book:100 Selected Poems

Source: 100 Selected Poems

“One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.”

Should Light Bird Feathers

Author:Paul Valery

“Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.”

“There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.”

Should Trying Two House Bird Stones Glasses Glass Houses Two Birds

Book:Pnin

Source: Pnin

“If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the earth, on the river ruined in its own duration: I know nothing save things the birds have lost, the sea I left behind, or my sister crying. Why this abundance of places? Why does day lock with day? Why the dark night swilling round in our mouths? And why the dead?”

Source: Selected poems

“CROWN Too much rain loosens trees. In the hills giant oaks fall upon their knees. You can touch parts you have no right to— places only birds should fly to.”

Should Fall Too Much Tree Bird Rain Hills Knees Giants Crowns Oaks

Book:Say Uncle: Poems

Source: Say Uncle: Poems

“Hugo attacked me." Clary tried not to wince as the astringent liquid stung her wounds. Hugo?" Luke blinked. Hodge's bird. I think it was his bird, anyway. Maybe it was Valentine's." Hugin," Luke said softly. "Hugin and Munin were Valentine's pet birds. Their names mean 'Thought' and 'Memory.'" Well they should mean 'Attack' and 'Kill,'" said Clary. "Hugo almost tore my eyes out.”

Thinking Should Wells Mean Said Eye Names Memories Bird Wounds Pet Valentine Liquid Luke Wince

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

“I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.”

Ifs Thinking Should Littles Asks Water Break Fire Sea Bird Shadow Rain Empty Rose Mere Can Not Quench Larks Love Rain Sea Birds

Book:The Duchess of Padua: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: The Duchess of Padua: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“I walk through the seasons and always the birds are singing and screaming and keening for love When you're with me it seems so absurd that I should be jealous of the jay and the dove.”

Should Seems Walks Singing Bird Seasons Absurd Jealous Dove Being Jealous

Book:Linger

Source: Linger

“We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious. If we smile at someone, he or she will smile back. And a smile costs nothing. We should plague everyone with joy. If we are to die in a minute, why not die happily, laughing? (136-137)”

Ifs World Feels Should Whole Joy Dies Change Laughing Minutes Cost Bird Whole World Midst Why Not Serenity Tranquility Plague Calamity Serene Contagious Tranquil

Book:Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

Source: Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

“Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such heirs.”

Should Long Self Behinds Lucky Summer Bird Dinosaurs Heirs Short Life So Lucky

Book:The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

Source: The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

“Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.”

Men Life Should Humanity Nature Animal Compassion Tree Civilization Respect Bird Environmental Treated Gentle Novelists Touched Contempt Short Life Animal Abuse Respect Life

Author:Elizabeth Goudge

“Should we say something?’ Cal asks. ‘Goodbye, bird?’ I suggest. He nods. ‘Goodbye, bird. Thank you for coming. And good luck.”

Should Asks Bird Luck Goodbye Good Luck Thank You For Coming

Book:Before I Die

Source: Before I Die

“He's bent over the strings tuning his guitar with such passionate attention I almost feel I should look away but I can't. In fact I'm full on gawking wondering what it would be like to be cool and casual and fearless and passionate and so freaking alive just like he is- and for a split second I want to play with him. I want to disturb the birds. Later as he plays and plays as all the fog burns away I think he's right. That's exactly it- I am crazy sad and somewhere deep inside all I want is to fly.”

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters.”

Knows World Giving Should Wells Looks Children Littles Important Matter Facts Young Parent Advice Capable Bird Dear Deceiving Giving Advice

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.”

Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views

“I don’t know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings”

Knows Should Believe I Believe Fire Solitude Bird Should Have Wings

Author:Alejandra Pizarnik

“In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky is clear and blue, And I should like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day?”

People Way Should Doe Stills Hard Play Light Seems Past Night Clear Tree Feet Sky Streets Bed Summer Spring Bird Dresses Blue Winter Get Up Yellow Candle June July Hopping Candle Lights

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific distinction, and it features conspicuously both in attacking behaviour, when the birds face each other and grip beaks, and also in courtship, when food is passed from the beak of the male to the beak of the female. Hence though the beak differences are primarily correlated with differences in food, secondarily they serve as specific recognition marks, and the birds have evolved behaviour patterns to this end.”

Source: Darwin's Finches

“Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.”

Needs Should Courses Christianity Hair Bird Flying Temptation Avoided Nests

Author:Martin Luther