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“Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that something went wrong.”

Ifs Problem Bird Mental Health Environmental Population Indicators Environmental Health Wild Birds

Author:Jim Elliot

“The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.”

Men Heart Littles Courses Solitude Bird Wings Solitary Nests Lone Fluttering Solitary Man Wild Birds

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“See the wild birds on the wing, Hear the bells that sweetly ring, When you feel like singin', sing-- Keep a-goin'!”

Feels Singing Bird Wings Perseverance Rings Bells Wild Birds

Author:Frank Lebby Stanton

“... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.”

Marriage Bird Mates Cages Wild Birds

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.”

Has Beens Sometimes Bird Clouds Woods Variety Wild Birds

Author:Carl Sandburg

“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

“I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.”

Believe I Believe Bird Advantage Flocks Migration Wild Birds

Book:The Little Prince:

Source: The Little Prince:

“As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".”

Source: To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875

“When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face”

Dream Faces Nature Millions Environment Creation Bird Casts Streams Pleasant Conservation Abiding Natural Environment Massacres Save Mother Earth Nature Conservation Wild Birds

Book:Poems, 1908-1919

Source: Poems, 1908-1919

“I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want these particular species to disappear.”

Thinking Want Environment Particular Right Now Bird Moved Species Disappear Extremism Ecological Wild Birds

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.”

World Art Song Literature History Gone Special Bird Destroyed Crafts Repeats Passed Away Repeating History History Repeats Itself Wild Birds

Book:Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

Source: Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

“Ah! the year is slowly dying, And the wind in tree-top sighing, Chant his requiem. Thick and fast the leaves are falling, High in air wild birds are calling, Nature's solemn hymn.”

Years Fall Air Tree Dying Wind Calling Bird Thick Solemn Hymns Requiem Wild Birds Tree Tops

Author:Mary Weston Fordham

“Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in the cries of wild birds. Listen to the whisperings of the wind and the roar of water if you would discover magic, for it is here that the old secrets are preserved.”

Ifs Book Water Simple Secret Magic Cry Wind Bird Stones Fragile Herbs Whispering Manuscripts Cryptic Wild Birds

Book:Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

Source: Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

“Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.”

Bird Wild Birds

Author:John Lennon

“I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.”

Giving Years Two Able House Felt Attention Dog Bird Years Ago Army Guilty Squirrels Two Dogs Wild Birds

Author:Mike Farrell

“Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and the wild birds in her breast climbed to her throat and gathered songless, hovering, all tumult, wing to wing, so ardent for those climes where all things end.”

Ends Earth Bird All Things Wings Rose Wide Colour Breasts Throat Dew Faded Ardent Microcosm Tumult Hovering Wild Birds

Book:Titus Groan

Source: Titus Groan