Migratory Birds Quotes

• 'Ornithologists concluded that migratory birds take hundreds of naps as they fly; they also practice unilateral eye closure, in which one eye closes, thereby permitting half the brain to sleep.' Is this what happens when photographers close one eye to look through a viewfinder? If so, they might be operating with only half a brain. Perhaps that explains.

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  Bill Jay

  Photography   Sleep   Eye  

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• I can tell that in Refuge the question that was burning in me was, how do we find refuge in change? Everything around me that was familiar had been turned inside out with my mother's diagnosis of ovarian cancer and with the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge being flooded.

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  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mother   Cancer   Rivers  

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!

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  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever   Men   Hands  

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• O trees of life, O when are you wintering?We are not unified. We have no instinctslike those of migratory birds. Useless, and late,we force ourselves, suddenly, onto the wind,and fall down to an indifferent lake.We realise flowering and fading together.And somewhere lions still roam. Never knowing,as long as they have their splendour, of any weakness.

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  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall   Wind   Knowing  

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• We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.

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  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Men   Bird   Troops  

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• The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights.

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  Phyllis Bottome

  Thinking   Bird   Creative  

  Phyllis Bottome (1943). “Survival”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• Intuitions are like migratory birds, they come without a map without a reason.

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  Amit Ray

  Bird   Intuition   Maps  

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• Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the rhythm of the earth and of nature. Life is the cry of cicadas signalling the end of summer, migratory birds winging south in a transparent autumn sky, fish frolicking in a stream. Life is the joy beautiful music installs in us, the thrilling sight of a mountain peak reddened by the rising sun, the myriad combinations and permutations of visible and invisible phenomena. Life is all things.

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  Daisaku Ikeda

  Beautiful   Summer   Spring  

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• God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

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  Jacques Deval

  Life   Funny Love   Men  

  "A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations" by Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell, (p. 22), 1992.

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