Birds

Silver Breasted Broadbill

Peter Pan J.M.Barrie
Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily.
"I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”   

“The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.”
Eric Berne

Admiring Cormorants

How can a bird that is born of joy
Sit in a cage and sing ?
How can a child when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his youthful spring?
William Blake

Pelican on the front of a dinghy in the Maroochy River

 "Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses." - Dale Carnegie

Use what talents you possess:the woods would be very silent if  no birds sang there except the ones that sang best! 
Henry Van Dyke

Parrot and Callistemon

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Albert Einstein

Corellas Feeding

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Its not only fine feathers that make fine birds 

Aesop 620BC to 520Bc

Baya weaver

Even when a bird walks, one feels it has wings.
 Antoine-Marin Lemierre

Bee Hummingbird

Great Horned Owls 
By AJ Hand of Westport, CT

 

Nature Pics and Quotes of the Week

Orange Koi Carp Largest Goldfish in the World

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger,who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead : his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

Mandarin Fish

 Less Judgement More Curiosity !

Blue Army of Soldier Crabs
 
I would teach children music ,physics and philosophy;

 but most importantly music,for the patterns in music
 and all the arts are the key to learning.

Plato

The New Zealand Kakapu The worlds largest flightless Parrot

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

Milkweed Butterfly and Spider Web

The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater.

J.R.R.Tolkien 

Blue Tarantula 

 Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children. 

Walt Disney

Jewel Caterpillar

Come dance in the space between your thoughts, where love turns particles into waves.

Alfred K. LaMotte

Nature itself is the best physician.

 Hippocrates

Blue Emperor Scorpion

Everyone is a genius. But if you a judge a fish by it ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing that its stupid! 

Albert Einstein

Cardinal in the Snow

California Poppies and Cactus

Water Dragon Lizard

Owls

Poetry of Nature

 Poetry is not an opinion expressed.
It is a song that rises from a bleeding wound
or a smiling mouth. 

Kahlil Gibran

Red Gurnard Balığı

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity; more than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be  violent and all will be lost.

Charlie Chaplin’s 
The Great Dictator

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Gouldian Finch

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

  
Edgar Allan Poe

Poecilotheria metallica, a species of Tarantula.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. 

The Dawn 
by Friedrich Nietzsche

White Peacock Tuscany Italy

 Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason & your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. 

 Kahlil Gibran

Indian Bullfrog 

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down”
 There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

Charlie Chaplin

Royal Flycatcher

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

Henry Miller

My mother said to me, “If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.” Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

 Pablo Picasso

 The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...

 Pablo Picasso 

Sunbird on a Blood Lily

 Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
 

 You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.

Pablo Picasso

Einstein and the Colour of Nature

Albert Einstein quotes with colourful nature photos! 

Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

 Sally Lightfoot Crab - Photo by Will Burrard-Lucas

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Lilac-breasted Roller

 A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Mandarin Duck

 Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

Lorrikeet in a Wattle Tree 

 The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Harlequin Beetle

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.  

 Peacock and Rose Garden
 

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher

  The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.  
Anais Nin

Purple Reef Lobster


 1905, Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?

Nesting bee eaters  photo by Will Burrard-Lucas

Birds and Quotes

 Blue Footed Booby

 Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Albert Einstein

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. - William Blake

 Yellow Warbler

In this outdoor waiting room of winds & stars she had been sitting for a 100 years,at peace in the contemplation of herself.

Scott Fitzgerald

 Baby Pygmy Owl

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

 Blue Magpie of Taiwan

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. Carl Sandburg

Mandarin Ducks 

 Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.  Dale Carnegie

 Dennis Binda Photography 

 Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.  
W.H. Hudson 

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein 

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird? 
Edward Hersey Richards

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
  Friedrich Nietzsche

   

The Mist

Soft, the morning mist

All of nature has been kissed

Effervescent joy.

      The mist that drifts away at dawn, leaving but dew in the fields, shall rise and gather into a cloud and then fall down in rain. And not unlike the mist have I been.  In the stillness of the night I have walked in your streets, and my spirit has entered your houses,
And your heart-beats were in my heart, and your breath was upon my face, and I knew you all. 

Kahlil Gibran 

Misty Blue Dorothy Moore

 

 Kahlil Gibran Facebook

 
 She wore a cloak of deep sorrow through her life, which increased her strange beauty and dignity, as a tree in blossom is more lovely when seen through the mist of dawn.

 Into The Mystic Van Morrison 

Early Morning Rain Elvis Presley