#birds

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds. ↗

— Jack Herer

#high #humans #observable #produces

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#birds #hours #imitating #kindly #man

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes. ↗

— William Bartram

#be the first #birds #even #first #food

The ocean is 20 minutes away. Nature surrounds me 24/7. I wake up to the sounds of birds chirping. I also love that I can go out to dinner in jeans and flip-flops. ↗

— Jordana Brewster

#away #birds #dinner #go #i

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#birds #environment #find #god #i

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. ↗

— Robert Burton

#anxiety #birds #cage #chain #climb

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#because #being #birds #finer #may

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#beings #birds #change #different #different place