On Releasing a Captive Bird by James Allen

On Releasing a Captive Bird
James Allen

I found a little bird held fast, ensnared
By ruthless hands; a gentle, captive prey
Thirsting for freedom, piteously scared,
Struggling in vain to ’scape and soar away.

I marked his terror, and I took him up;
His fluttering heart spoke out his wild despair.
"Look, you and I with the great gods shall sup
This day," I said; then threw him into air.

Whereat he soared, and wheeled, and flew away;
Great was his joy, and Truth - born bliss was mine;
Thus supped we both with the high gods that day;
Thus tasted we their nectar, drank their wine.

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SEA-BIRDS by Elizabeth Akers

SEA-BIRDS
Elizabeth Akers
[1832-1911]

O lonesome sea-gull, floating far
Over the ocean's icy waste,
Aimless and wide thy wanderings are,
Forever vainly seeking rest: -
Where is thy mate, and where thy nest?

'Twixt wintry sea and wintry sky,
Cleaving the keen air with thy breast,
Thou sailest slowly, solemnly;
No fetter on thy wing is pressed: -
Where is thy mate, and where thy nest?

O restless, homeless human soul,
Following for aye thy nameless quest,
The gulls float, and the billows roll;
Thou watchest still, and questionest: -
Where is thy mate, and where thy nest?

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Inspirational Horses quotes with pictures

The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on and the horse looks at him in silence. They are so silent, they are in another world.
David Herbert Lawrence,The White Horse

To many, the words love, hope, and dreams are synonymous with horses.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I have seen things so beautiful they have brought tears to my eyes. Yet none of them can match the gracefulness and beauty of a horse running free.
Author Unknown

His is a power enhanced by pride, a courage heightened by challenge. His is a swiftness intensified by strength, a majesty magnified by grace. His is a timeless beauty touched with gentleness, a spirit that calls our hearts to dream.
Author Unknown

To see the wind's power, the rain's cleansing and the sun's radiant life, one need only to look at the horse.
Author Unknown

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.
William Cavendish

When I bestride him, I soar; I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
William Shakespeare (Henry V)

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Excerpt from : Tales Of A Wayside Inn - The Poet's Tale - The Birds Of Killingworth

Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these?
Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught
The dialect they speak, where melodies
Alone are the interpreters of thought?
Whose household words are songs in many keys,
Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught!
Whose habitations in the tree-tops even
Are half-way houses on the road to heaven!

Think, every morning when the sun peeps through
The dim, leaf-latticed windows of the grove,
How jubilant the happy birds renew
Their old, melodious madrigals of love!
And when you think of this, remember too
'T is always morning somewhere, and above
The awakening continents; from shore to shore,
Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.

Think of your woods and orchards without birds!
Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beams
As in an idiot's brain remembered words
Hang empty 'mid the cobwebs of his dreams!
Will bleat of flocks or bellowing of herds
Make up for the lost music, when your teams
Drag home the stingy harvest, and no more
The feathered gleaners follow to your door?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,The Poet's Tale-The Birds Of Killingworth

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Paintings of wildlife by Collin Bogle with quotes

Paintings of wildlife by Collin Bogle

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife
are in fact plans to protect man.
Stewart Udal

All beings tremble before violence. All fear death,
all love life. See yourself in others. Then whom
can you hurt? What harm can you do?Buddha

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Quote on animals by DAVID INGLIS, JOHN BONE & RHODA WILKIE

Even as we try to think objectively about what animals are
like, we are burdened with the need to justify our moral
relations with them. We kill animals for food; we use them
as experimental subjects in laboratories; we exploit them
as sources of raw materials such as leather and wool; we
keep them as work animals--the list goes on and on.
These practices are to our advantage, and we intend to
continue them. Thus, when we think about what the animals
are like, we are motivated to conceive of them in ways that
are compatible with treating them in these ways.
If animals are conceived as intelligent, sensitive beings,
these ways of treating them might seem monstrous.
So humans have reason to resist thinking of them as intelligent
or sensitive.
DAVID INGLIS, JOHN BONE & RHODA WILKIE, Nature

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Inspiring quote on birds on Ralph Waldo Emerson

O birds, your perfect virtues bring,
Your song, your forms, your rhythmic flight,
Your manners for your heart’s delight,
Nestle in hedge, or barn, or roof,
Here weave your chamber weather-proof,
Forgive our harms, and condescend
To man, as to a lubber friend,
And, generous, teach his awkward race
Courage, and probity, and grace!
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, May-Day and Other Pieces

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