Bird Base

Famous quotes containing the words bird and/or base:

“The bird is not in its ounces and inches, but in its relations to Nature; and the skin or skeleton you show me, is no more a heron, than a heap of ashes or a bottle of gases into which his body has been reduced, is Dante or Washington.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The base emotions Plato banned
have left a radio-active and not radiant land.”
—Libby Houston (b. 1941)