Best earth & bird Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.”

Men Doe Earth Law Turns Causes Natural Sun Honor Bird Tradition Traps Natural Law

Author:Khalil Gibran

“You have heaven adorned, earth beautified, the sea populated with its own creatures, the air filled with birds which scour it in every direction. Studious listener, think of all these creations which God has drawn out of nothing; . . . recognize everywhere the wisdom of God; never cease to wonder, and, through every creature, to glorify the Creator.”

Thinking Earth Heaven Animal Wonder Air Sea Creation Creatures Bird Filled Creator Cease Listeners Glorify Studious

Author:Saint Basil

“The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.”

Running Earth Voice Sun Tree Bird Hot Environmental Cooling Mead Grasshoppers Hot Sun

Author:John Keats

“The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.”

Men World Earth Evil Water Tree Sky Bird Environmental Fishes Evil Man Evil World

Author:Saint Augustine

“A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.”

Earth Black Bird Swans Black Swan

Author:Juvenal

“Walk with me to the edge of the city, / Take off your shoes and feel the earth. / Remember who you are. You are a star. / A mountain, that fountain in the sun. / Your heart is the velvet cave / Where birds sing.”

Feels Heart Earth Remember Stars Walks Cities Sun Journey Mountain Bird Who You Are Shoes Edges Caves Fountain Velvet Walk With Me Remember Who You Are

Author:Julia Cameron

“Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song? No wonder the bird has become the symbol for happiness. Before the farmer begins to plough the wet earth, often while snow is still on the ground, this hardy little minstrel is making himself very much at home in our orchards and gardens while waiting for a mate to arrive from the South.”

Firsts Littles Stills Home Earth Song Waiting Wonder Spring Bird Garden South Snow Welcome Symbols Farmers Mates Wet Hardy Orchard Bluebird Minstrels

Author:Neltje Blanchan

“The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leaves are generally green; and earth-worms the colour of the earth which they inhabit; butter-flies, which frequent flowers, are coloured like them; small birds which frequent hedges have greenish backs like the leaves, and light-coloured bellies like the sky, and are hence less visible to the hawk who passes under them or over them.”

Light Earth Science Nature Natural Animal Sky Flower Bird Green Colour Visible Worms Belly Insects Prey Hawks Caterpillars

Book:The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants

Source: The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants

“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

“Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth fluttered under them. The earth was dancing with the cranes, and the low sun, and the wind and sky.”

Earth Water Sun Magic Sky Wind Lows Bird Dancing Grass Shallow Mystic Marshes Cranes Shallow Water

Book:The Yearling

Source: The Yearling

“No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.”

Light Earth Sea Sky Arms Bird Terror Harm Monsters Beast Bent Wrath Brutes Bolts Swarms Whirlwind Spawn Flare

Book:The Oresteia

Source: The Oresteia

“God is a lion that comes in the night. God is a hawk gliding among the stars-- If all the stars and the earth, and the living flesh of the night that flows in between them, and whatever is beyond them Were that one bird. He has a bloody beak and harsh talons, he pounces and tears.”

Ifs God Earth Night Stars Tears Bird Flow Flesh Lions Bloody Harsh Hawks Talons Beaks Gliding

Book:The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962

Source: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962

“Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.”

“Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way.”

Men Way Earth Courses Lost Tree Bird Fishes

Book:I Heard the Owl Call My Name

Source: I Heard the Owl Call My Name

“I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.”

World Ideas Earth Race Planets Communication Bird Obscure Satellites

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the gods, not to mention the gods.”

Earth Tree Bird Regulation Bees Rules And Regulations

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“We lived in places that we never knew. We could not name the birds perched on our sill, Or see the trees we cut down for our view. What we possessed we always chose to kill. "We claimed the earth but did not hear her claim, And when we died, they laid us on her breast, But she refuses us until we earn Forgiveness from the lives we dispossessed.”

Earth Names Views Cutting Tree Bird Claims Died Refuse Breasts Possessed

Book:99 Poems: New & Selected

Source: 99 Poems: New & Selected

“With Wordsworth, indeed, the light of revelation did not fall upon human beings so unbrokenly as upon the face of the earth. He knew the birds of the countryside better than the old men, and the flowers far better than the children.”

Men Humans Children Light Earth Faces Fall Human Beings Flower Bird Revelations Old Man Countryside Wordsworth

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beautiful things on earth--joyous, innocent, half divine--useless, say they who are wiser than God.”

World Age Earth Beautiful Half Divine Flower Bird Innocent Golden Useless Butterfly Beautiful Things Wiser Joyous Golden Age

Book:Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes

Source: Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes

“Showers and sunshine bring, Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth; To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, And one by one the singing-birds come back.”

Earth Spring Singing Bird Woods Sunshine Showers Foliage Singing Birds

Author:William C. Bryant

“I know I am made from this earth, as my mother's hands were made from this earth, as her dreams came from this earth and all that I know, I know in this earth, the body of the bird, this pen, this paper, these hands, this tongue speaking, all that I know speaks to me through this earth.”

Knows Made Dream Body Hands Earth Mother Speak Paper Bird Tongue Pens

Book:Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

Source: Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves.”

Way Giving Mean Doe Earth Bird Labor Nests

Author:J. G. Holland

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