Within two minutes Smalling had called out 16 species
of singing birds.
Director Will Gluck, who penned the screenplay along with Rob Lieber, quickly establishes the production's overtly slapstick tone right from the start, as a quartet
of singing birds encircling the iconic Columbia Pictures «Torch Lady» end up as the dazed victims of a hit - and - run by an out - of - control Peter Rabbit (Corden).
The most resonating of these is James Richard's sensual film installation Rosebud, which intersperses pages of Japanese erotic novels, the flickering image
of a singing bird and glimpses of womens» flesh, the camera running and rolling over pale skin.
Not exact matches
On his company's website, Richard Branson has a long list
of recommended reading, which features everything from «Where the Wild Things Are,» to «The Hobbit,» to Maya Angelou's «I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings» — one
of Bill Clinton's favorite books, too.
Or, I walk through a forest and I notice a large blossom tree, full
of small
birds happily
singing.
The time
of year when flowers bloom,
birds sing, and the entire internet starts yelling at you for getting a tax refund or - even worse - getting a tax refund and then spending it.The horror.The conventional wisdom goes something like this: You shouldn't...
Some good places to start: Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Collected Poems
of Langston Hughes, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr., Narrative
of the Life
of Frederick Douglass, The Souls
of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois and I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.
The tiniest
of birds sings the mightiest
of songsas the morning sun rises.
My spirit is not hearing any
birds sing and anything that crunches is pissing me off, instead
of helping me learn and grow.
Dying
of stomach cancer in 1955, Stevens saturated even his last poem, «Of Mere Being,» with an image of «gaiety» and «ultimate elegance»: a «palm at the end of the mind» in which a «gold - feathered bird sings.&raqu
of stomach cancer in 1955, Stevens saturated even his last poem, «
Of Mere Being,» with an image of «gaiety» and «ultimate elegance»: a «palm at the end of the mind» in which a «gold - feathered bird sings.&raqu
Of Mere Being,» with an image
of «gaiety» and «ultimate elegance»: a «palm at the end of the mind» in which a «gold - feathered bird sings.&raqu
of «gaiety» and «ultimate elegance»: a «palm at the end
of the mind» in which a «gold - feathered bird sings.&raqu
of the mind» in which a «gold - feathered
bird sings.»
The tiny
bird, revived by the steaming hot dung, poked his head out and began
singing merrily at the joy
of being alive.
These are the days for those
of us who know that the desert is cold and grey with hard ground, we incline our ears towards the hardly - believable
birds now
singing and we want to shriek out loud with joy when the first daffodil pokes through cold earth.
He speaks, and the sound
of His voice, Is so sweet the
birds hush their
singing, And the melody that He gave to me Within my heart is ringing.
For, lo, the winter is past; The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time
of the
singing of birds is come, And the voice
of the turtle - dove is heard in our land (Song
of Sol.
These are the days for those
of us who know the desert's cold and grey truth with hard ground, we incline our ears towards the hardly - believable
birds now
singing and we want to shriek out loud with joy when the first daffodil pokes through cold earth.
Born to
Sing: an Interpretation and World Survey
of Bird Song.
The one thing needful is to enjoy the visitor, whether the visitor be in the form
of a friend, a stranger, a sunset, a tall tree or a
bird singing by its nest.
In this case, we get something like e. e. cummings's famous couplet «I'd rather learn from one
bird how to
sing / Than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance» — or even, more memorably, Keats's complaint in «Lamia» that «cold philosophy» (Newton's optics) threatens to reduce the rainbow to «the dull catalogue
of common things.»
Birds sing, the dance
of the bee seems to be a kind
of symbolic language, beavers build dams.
If
birds sometimes
sing because they enjoy it, then
birds with more complex songs would
sing for greater lengths
of time and with shorter breaks between songs.
Later in May, he wrote again to Melancthon, dating the letter «From the land
of the
birds that
sing sweetly in the branches and praise God with all their power night and day», and signed his name «Martin» in Greek.
This led him to the hypothesis that some
singing by
birds is also because
of enjoyment.
Clearly if we found that this chemical were released whenever the
bird began to
sing, this would be a strong bit
of evidence in favor
of our hypothesis.
I'm excited to see nature waking up and blooming, to hear
birds singing and
of course, coming
of warmer sunny days.
The south wind is blowing, the laundry is on the clothesline, the
birds are
singing outside my window, and my refrigerator is full
of eggs!
The
birds are
singing, the frost is thawing and I can see a little bit
of green grass coming through on the fields.
That beautiful blue moment just before the sun fully rises, the
birds singing and other nature's voices when us humans don't make any
of our characteristic noises, like traffic, yet.
But those grim reminders
of the old Soviet Union were offset by the warm Siberian sunshine, the
bird - cherry bushes in full bloom, the flowering garlic, and the cuckoos
singing in the trees.
«It strikes Werner just then as wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to
sing songs, to print huge books full
of colorful
birds in the face
of the seismic, engulfing indifference
of the world - what pretensions humans have!»
The trees were all beautiful shades
of green, the
birds were
singing sweetly, and rabbits and squirrels were playing in the undergrowth.
Feeding sheep,
singing to lambs, picking up chickens, chasing ducks, snuggling kitties, climbing trees to catch the
birds, and stopping periodically to instruct her little sister in the ways
of her world.
It can be «big» and significant or one
of the more sublime, little moments that came along like a sweet little
bird to
sing into her awareness.
You can play nature's recording like the sound
of the waterfalls, the chirping
of birds or even your own voice
singing.
Go apple picking Jump in a pile
of leaves Make some autumn art Collect colourful fall leaves Collect seeds from plants in the garden Plant bulbs for next spring Make a
bird feeder Make leaf prints Make pumpkin playdough Create an Autumn poem Go looking for spider webs Make a nature table with your Autumn finds Bake an apple pie Carve your own pumpkin Make Autumn sun catchers Go on a bat watch at dusk Make toffee apples Set up a scavenger hunt Collect sycamore seeds Grab an umbrella and go
singing in the rain Throw a Halloween party Make an autumn wreath for your door Make a bug hotel Listen to the sound
of leaves crunching under your feet Collect conkers Collect pinecones Collect twigs Make hot chocolate Draw or paint some autumn still life Attend harvest festival Make apple crisps / chips Remember what you're thankful for Take pictures
of all the different colours you can find in a woodland Make leaf rubbings Go stargazing Have an autumn picnic Look for a full moon Go trick or treating Try apple bobbing Make apple sauce Fly a kite Make a windsock Dry orange slices Roast pumpkin seeds Make Halloween biscuits Make a rain catcher Build an indoor fort Collect acorns Donate old woollens and coats to a charity Help clear leaves from the lawn
We'll also enjoy the return
of the
birds to our fields, forests and wetlands as they hunt for food,
sing songs, and build nests.
The third one is a sledding trio
of birds singing «oh what fun».
Of course, a wren is a small
bird known for its beautiful
singing voiced.
So celebrate when your infant gurgles with glee over a game
of peekaboo, your 1 - year - old titters madly when you
sing «Mary Had a Little Lamb» in a Tweety
Bird voice, your preschooler giggles wildly when you hold a shoe to your ear and say, «Hello?»
I wonder if he to is «
singing» to the «FEDS» the love those song
birds who
sing sweet somethings into their ear to stay out
of jail or do as little time as possible.
Birds sang; a soft breeze fluttered the curtains
of Mario Cuomo's study.
The dawn chorus is thought to be important for attracting and defending females, yet well - fed
birds delayed their
singing by an average
of 20 minutes, often waiting until after sunrise.
Young
birds without the HVC continued to babble (compare audio
of a normal young finch and a babbling youngster with HVC missing), while slightly older finches who had started to learn how to
sing took a step backwards.
In the temperate zones
of the Northern hemisphere, usually only the male
birds sing.
Amrhein thinks the
birds might be chasing other males away from their valuable larder instead
of singing.
Lions roar, wolves howl, and
birds sing in order to announce that they are in their territories and desire competing members
of the same species to stay away.
The HVc neurons send signals to the RA neurons, which in turn control the
singing muscles, and researchers had found that the two regions fire not just when the
birds sing, but when they listen to recordings
of their own songs.
So
Sang - Hee Yoon and Sungmin Park
of the University
of California, Berkeley, studied video and CT scans
of the
bird's head and neck and found that...
One group
of high - altitude
birds in the Canadian Rockies
sang songs that stood out other members
of their subspecies, which Roach and Phillmore believe is an adaptation to how sound carries in their open, shrubby habitat.
Kate Douglas looks at how a
bird that was bred for its plumage came to
sing intricate melodies composed
of...
After doing so, when the
birds sang, instead
of their FoxP2 levels declining, the levels remained high.