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“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

“The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while they destroyed. We have passed this stage.... Here in the U.S. we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy our forests and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals - not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at best it looks as if our people were awakening.”

“Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle.”

Made Shows Order Turns Lord Ignorance Ought Bird Gold Miracle Wings Bones Flesh Refuge Veins Shields

Author:Galileo Galilei

“The saddest birds a season find to sing,The roughest storm a calm may soon allay;Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all,That men may hope to rise yet fear to fall.”

Men May Turns Fall Succeed Bird Seasons Calm Storm Saddest

Book:The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell

Source: The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell

“These false answers such as, I am stone, I am bird, I am animal, I am man, I am woman, I am great, I am small are, in turn, received, tested and discarded until the Question arrives at the right and Final Answer, I AM GOD.”

Men Turns Answers Animal Bird Stones Finals Tested Discarded I Am Woman

Book:The Advancing Stream of Life: Its Mystery, Meaning & Purpose

Source: The Advancing Stream of Life: Its Mystery, Meaning & Purpose

“And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam The sound of loneliness makes me happier.”

Thinking Wells Made Turns Waiting Sound Sleep Loneliness Cry Poet Clothes Bird This Life Ashamed Yellow Locks Steam Drawers Polaroids

Author:Conor Oberst

“A bird only flies. It does not turn to another bird and ask, am I doing this right?”

Doe Turns Asks Bird

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Witches try to 'connect' with the world around them. Witchcraft, they say, is about the tactile, intuitive understanding of the turn of the seasons, the song of the birds; it is the awareness of all things as holy.”

World Trying Song Turns Understanding Nature Awareness Holy Bird All Things Seasons Oneness Holiness Witch Intuitive Witchcraft Tactile

Author:Tanya Luhrmann

“Just at the turn of the tide, nature held its breath - no bird sang, everything seemed to be waiting and waiting. And then, sure enough, as if someone had flicked a switch, everything started in motion again.”

Ifs Enough Turns Waiting Ocean Bird Breaths Tides

Author:M.C. Beaton

“Every time I get happy the Nana-hex comes through. Birds turn into plumber's tools, a sonnet turns into a dirty joke, a wind turns into a tracheotomy, a boat turns into a corpse.”

Happiness Turns Wind Depression Jokes Bird Tools Boat Dirty Corpses Sonnet Plumber Dirty Jokes

Author:Anne Sexton