Bird [Bargain Price] [Hardcover]
Bird [Bargain Price] [Hardcover]
Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.
- Proverb from the Congo
A crow Perched on a withered tree In the autumn evening.
- Basho
Sweet bird! thy bow'r is ever green,
Thy sky is ever clear;
thou has't no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
- John Logan
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing
in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance
that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
- Henry David Thoreau
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
- John Berry
Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds
a yard can support, the fewer insects there will be to trouble
the gardener the following year.
- Thalassa Cruso
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
- Chinese Proverb
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries,
and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
- Joseph Addison
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way
in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
- Robert Lynd
Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies
will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and
squeals and chatterings, oblivious to what goes on around them.
It is one of those things, I suppose, intelligence now and then does,
must in fact now and then do, must think, must play, must imagine,
must talk to itself. ... What, finally, intelligence could be for:
finding your way back.
- Stanley Crawford, A Garlic Testament, p. 86.
Let the farmer remember that every bird destroyed, and every nest
robbed, is equivalent to a definite increase in insects with which he
already has to struggle. He will soon appreciate the fact that he has
a personal interest, and a strong one, in the preservation of birds.
- Henry Oldys
Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds.
And don't hate nobody.
- Eubie Blake
Spring would not be spring without bird songs.
- Francis M. Chapman
I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird.
Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the
form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them
if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.
- Thomas Jefferson
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
- Emily Dickinson
At the sight of blackbirds
Flying in a green light,
Even the bawds of euphony
Would cry out sharply.
- Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, 1923
Coexistence ... what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving.
- Mike Connolly
A Robin Redbreast in a cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
- William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
One swallow does not make a summer.
To me, the garden is a doorway to other worlds; one of them,
of course, is the world of birds. The garden is their dinner table,
bursting with bugs and worms and succulent berries.
- Anne Raver
A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.
- Bret Harte
There are 8,600 species of birds in the world today. They are
found everywhere. Birds play a vital role in the balance of nature.
They eat insects, pests and small animals. Fruit eating birds are
best for scattering seeds for these plants. Seed eating birds
digest seeds and in so doing keep millions of weeds from the earth...
Birds have between 1,000 and 25,000 feathers.
- Birds, U.C. Davis