To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
My friends would howl if I claimed I was androgynous - I'm not tall enough!
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.