“One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird, then at the same time you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn't make any sense.” IfsHelpingCompassionBrokenOne DayBirdLegsPityAbsurdRestaurantsUrgesChickensSympathyBodybuildingUnreasonableIllogicalKindness To AnimalsSenselessnessBroken LegLack Of Common Sense Author:Patrik Baboumian
“Make fun of death. We are as dead as it gets, and we are fully aware of this joyous experience. We are with you every time you allow it. We are in every singing bird and in every joyful child. We are part of every delicious pulsing in your environment. We are not dead, and neither will you ever be! You will just get up, one day, and get out of the movie.” ChildrenFunEnvironmentOne DaySingingBirdAdversityGet UpBe YouJoyfulDeliciousOur EnvironmentJoyousSinging Birds Author:Esther Hicks
“One day I'm going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do....is to watch these birds.” FeelsWritingBookAsksWatchesOne DayBirdOspreys Author:Alan Lightman
“In Nepal, the phenomenon is reversed. Time is a stick of incense that burns without being consumed. One day can seem like a week; a week, like months. Mornings stretch out and crack their spines with the yogic impassivity of house cats. Afternoons bulge with a succulent ripeness, like fat peaches. There is time enough to do everything - write a letter, eat breakfast, read the paper, visit a shrine or two, listen to the birds, bicycle downtown to change money, buy postcards, shop for Buddhas - and arrive home in time for lunch.” WritingTwoEnoughHomeSeemsHouseMorningWeekMonthsOne DayPaperBirdCatLettersSticksFatsShopsPhenomenonCracksBreakfastLunchAfternoonConsumedBicycleSpineDowntownPeachesShrinesIncenseNepalPostcardsRipenessSucculents Book:Shopping for Buddhas: An Adventure in Nepal Source: Shopping for Buddhas: An Adventure in Nepal
“And turkeys are a bird. A very nervous bird. You'd be nervous too if you knew that one day you'd get your head cut off and... filled with stuffing.” IfsCuttingOne DayBirdFilledNervousTurkeys Author:Bob Saget
“One day at Princeton, I noticed there were dead birds on the pavement between the campus buildings, where very large trees were. It turns out it was DDT. At the time, in the early '50s, no one thought DDT was dangerous to anybody but insects. I went down to the Daily Princetonian, the college paper, and tried to persuade them to do a story. They said, "Naw, there's nothing wrong." But that taught me a very important lesson. One, that newspaper people can get very jaded. Second, that you might know something, like an expert chemistry professor, you are not going to apply what you know.” PeopleImportantTreeDangerousBuildingCollegeOne DayBirdChemistry Author:Ralph Nader
“Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, "You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.” KnowsSaidArtistFightingBitsExpressionOne DayBirdParks Book:Silence: Lectures and Writings Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings
“One day a hummingbird flew in-- It fluttered against the window til I got it down where I could reach it with an open umbrella-- --When I had it in my hand it was so small I couldn't believe I had it--but I could feel the intense life--so intense and so tiny-- ...You were like the humming bird to me... And I am rather inclined to feel that you and I know the best part of one another without spending much time together-- --It is not that I fear the knowing-- It is that I am at this moment willing to let you be what you are to me--it is beautiful and pure and very intensely alive.” KnowsFeelsBelieveMomentsHandsTogetherBeautifulKnowingAliveWillingOne DayPureBirdWindowSpendingTinyIntenseFlewUmbrellaTime TogetherHummingHummingbirds Author:Georgia O'Keeffe