Robert Lynd

In order to see birds it is necessary to become part of the silence.

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.

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.

It is in games that many men discover their paradise.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

Happy is the father whose child finds his attempts to amuse it amusing.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

Winter air is one of the things that can be still without being stagnant. As a matter of fact, the stiller it is the more it seems to tingle with life.