"But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns."

Birds, Flying

38

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns."

Exlpore more Birds quotes

"I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh."

Erich Maria Remarque, German Writer

Birds, Darkness, Faces

"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Birds, Children, Taste

"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."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

Birds, Clouds

"Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned."

William Bartram, American Environmentalist

Birds, Will

"Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble."

Roger Tory Peterson, American Environmentalist

Birds, Environment, Trouble

"Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer."

Rachel Ward, English Actress

Birds, Longevity

"I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them."

Roger Tory Peterson, American Environmentalist

Birds,

"It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries."

John Masefield, English Poet

Birds, Wind

"When birds burp, it must taste like bugs."

Bill Watterson, American Cartoonist

Birds, Bugs, Taste

"Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc."

Sergei Eisenstein, Latvian Director

Birds,

Explore more quotes by John James Audubon

"If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America."

Life

"On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise."

Time

"To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art."

Art

"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children."

Children

"Duruing all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks."

Nature

"Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased."

Mother

"I waged war against my feelings."

War

"I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine."

Life

"I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children."

Life

"Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?"

Hope