{"quotes":[{"text":"Again burst out that chant McKay had heard as he had floated through the mists upon the lake. Now, as then, despite his opened ears, he could distinguish no words, but clearly he understood its mingled themes - the joy of Spring's awakening, rebirth, with the green life streaming singing up through every bough, swelling the buds, burgeoning with tender leaves the branches; the dance of the trees in the scented winds of Spring; the drums of the jubilant rain on leafy hoods; passion of Summer sun pouring its golden flood down upon the trees; the moon passing with stately step and slow and green hands stretching up to her and drawing from her breast milk of silver fire; riot of wild gay winds with their mad pipings and strummings; - soft interlacing of boughs, the kiss of amorous leaves - all these and more, much more that McKay could not understand for it dealt with hidden, secret things for which man has no images.('The Women Of The Woods').","author":"Abraham Grace Merritt","tags":["bird","moon","natural","nature","pagan","spring","tree","trees"],"id":1513,"author_id":"Abraham+Grace+Merritt"},{"text":"There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird,When it finds its nest left empt and little ones gone.' - Sentry.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["angry","angry-bird","antigone","bird","birds-nest","girl","little-ones","nest","screaming","screaming-girl","sentry","sophocles","the-theban-plays"],"id":3862,"author_id":"Sophocles"},{"text":"London is a roost for every bird.","author":"Benjamin Disraeli","tags":["bird","london","every "],"id":8746,"author_id":"Benjamin+Disraeli"},{"text":"Who were these people? Where was all this joy, and where does joy go when it leaves your family? Does it go into someone else's family, soak into the earth, or does it dissolve away like your breath in the winter? And if it doesn't leave like this, then why isn't there any left for me?","author":"Crystal Chan","tags":["bird","grief","joy"],"id":9793,"author_id":"Crystal+Chan"},{"text":"When sighs are hypnotized by sorrowHappy moments you need to borrowFrom a little child or from a birdWho has the wild freedom of soul: stirred!","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["bird","child","freedom","happy","hypnotize","moment","moments","need","poem","poetry","poetry","sighs","sorrow","soul","soul","stirred"],"id":12387,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view and they don't create a systematic plan.","author":"Dave Ramsey","tags":["bird","eye","marketing "],"id":15372,"author_id":"Dave+Ramsey"},{"text":"A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and not toys, even though they are for children.' 'But they make no sense!' Summer protested 'Ah, well,' said Ben. 'Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.","author":"Katherine Catmull","tags":["bird","children","nursery-rhyme","nursery-rhymes","sense","shapes","summer"],"id":15708,"author_id":"Katherine+Catmull"},{"text":"A bird will only eat from a hand it trusts.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["bird","bird","faith","faithfulness","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-lessons","life-lessons","life","life","life","life-and-sayings","life-inspirational","loyalty","nature","nature","trust","wisdom","wisdom","wisdom","wise","wise","wise-sayings","wise-words"],"id":17789,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"A bird will only eat from a hand it trusts.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["bird","bird","faith","faithfulness","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-lessons","life-lessons","life","life","life","life-and-sayings","life-inspirational","loyalty","nature","nature","trust","wisdom","wisdom","wisdom","wise","wise","wise-sayings","wise-words"],"id":17789,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"The moon seems unawareof night's dark hittingon the damp warm rain misguiding owl's spitting A thunder light of loveraising hearts beatingwhile weather learns morefrom rain lovers meeting.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["beating","bird","birds","damp","dark","heart","hit","hitting","learn","learning","light","love","lovers","meetings","moon","moonlight","night","owl","owls","poem","poetry","poetry","rain","rainy","rainy-day","romance","romantic","spit","spitting","thunder","thunderbolt","warm","weather","weather-conditions"],"id":19654,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":253,"pages":26,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}