Even when a bird walks, one feels it has wings.
Bird Quotes
But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.
I have a bird of paradise Upon a springing cypress tree She sits for hours while daylight dims And not a song by day sings she. Her back is of celestial blue, Her head is purple; flaming dye Upon her wings, of golden hue Like dawn’s reflection in the sky. Only when the earth is […]
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the […]
I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character… like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy… the turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native […]
“Look!” whispered Julia. A thrush had alighted on a bough not five meters away, almost at the level of their faces. Perhaps it had not seen them. It was in the sun, they in the shade. It spread out its wings, fitted them carefully into place again, ducked its head for a moment, as though […]
