Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: nest

NOTE: There are a couple instances of the word ‘next’ being spelled as ‘nest’. The editor has checked these quotes, and taken advantage of this quirk in spelling.

Quoted In The Grove:
I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It’s just for you.
~Tom Waits

When I learn something new ‒ and it happens every day ‒ I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.
~Bill Moyers

Earth is the nest, the cradle, and we’ll move out of it.
~Gene Roddenberry

EndQuote:
Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.
~Robert Downey, Jr

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Next Prompt: danger

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You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.
~Rick Yancey

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Everyone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest doesn’t become a bird overnight.
~Lois Ehlert

I would say this to my students all the time, it’s about 30% you as the teacher and 70% about them. They tend to think that their role is to be the baby bird in a nest and you’re going to feed them? They’re going to feed themselves, or they’re going to starve.
~Tim Gunn

I’d always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.
~Michelle Moran

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How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof!… In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make ‒ leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents, or piled stone ‒ we all dwell in a house of one room ‒ the world with the firmament for its roof ‒ and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.
~John Muir

We’ve been given the gift of a billion years of cosmic time, and we should not screw it up. But at the rate we’re using up our planet’s natural resources and fouling our own nest means we’re not going to last a billion years.
~Sandra Faber

I’m very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We’ve got to be careful and make sure we don’t foul our own nest.
~John Lithgow

I have seen salmon swimming upstream to spawn even with their eyes pecked out. Even as they are dying, as their flesh is falling away from their spines, I have seen salmon fighting to protect their nests. I have seen them push up creeks so small that they rammed themselves across the gravel. I have seen them swim upstream with huge chunks bitten out of their bodies by bears. Salmon are incredibly driven to spawn. They will not give up. This gives me hope.
~Kathleen Moore

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.
~Jay Inslee

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The issue of fracking is a stick in the hornet’s nest.
~Titus Welliver

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest.
~Pope Paul VI

Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.
~Han Suyin

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To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
~Pema Chodron

No matter. The dead bird does not leave the nest.
~Winston Churchill

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Posted From The Grove

You have a short window, you know, and if I plan on living the lifestyle I want, I’ve got to make a nest egg.
~Donald Cerrone

It’s just wrong to work your whole life to build up a nest egg, build your own business ‒ you pass away, and Uncle Sam can swoop in and take away nearly half of everything you’ve earned. Can you imagine that? Having to sell off most of your land just to keep it from the government, just to save the house.
~Kevin Brady

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No bird ever tries to build more nests than its neighbor. The fox does not fret because he has only one hole in which to hide. The squirrel does not sicken and die of anxiety lest he should not accumulate enough nuts for two winters instead of one…
~Cid Ricketts Sumner

He had come to the conclusion that bags of gold were most plentiful in fairy stories, and that giants and fairies and all such delightful people were as hard to find as a humming-bird’s nest.
~Sophie Swett

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that’s it. You’re going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that’s deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.
~Andrew Shue

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Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.
~Chanakya

Instagram, Swiffer, and Nest had to compete with consumer habits and perceptions. Breakout products face competition from the formidable inertia powering the status quo.
~Jay Samit

Fixed-mindset worries in the nest and the growth-mindset dances on the edge.
~Amit Ray (hyphens added for clarity)

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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.
~George Eliot

Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.
~Anton Chekhov

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Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson.
~John Oliver

ISIS hates the West as an abominable nest of infidels ‒ infidels who reject the Quran and Shariah Law and so must be annihilated. We are the obstacle to the new Caliphate.
~Tom Tancredo

So this was a nest of radicals. She thought a hotbed of sedition would involve more gunpowder and secret handshakes, and less shuffling of feet and passing the sugar.
~Frances Hardinge

Life seems sadly mishandled by humans, as if it’s all too much for them ‒ they spend so much time and energy hurting each other, making things worse, and fouling their own nest, all because they imagine things aren’t good enough and should be made much better.
~Michael Leunig

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Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.
~Ronald Reagan

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet’s nest.
~Kenneth Blackwell

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat’s ear.
~Earl Derr Biggers

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~Michael J Ruocco: Nest (2012) (1:17) simple lines, cartoon silliness

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~PANKAJ x MADHURI | The Wedding Nest (4:46) love, another land, a memory for the family pending, stylized, a video before the work of love begins

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Little bitty bags are completely impractical ‒ I like big slouchy bags because they have to be comfortable for my lovely wee Chihuahua Tequila, who comes everywhere with me. I’m devoted to him, now my kids have long since flown the nest.
~Britt Ekland

When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they’re not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the music that numbs your teeth, or even the bottle of capless shampoo dribbling down the shower drain. They’re upset because they’ve gone from supervisor of a child’s life to a spectator. It’s like being the vice president of the United States.
~Erma Bombeck

If the nest is truly empty, who owns all this junk?
~Erma Bombeck

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People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.
~Michelle Pfeiffer

I don’t do well with my children leaving the nest.
~Kyle Richards

Not just for tissue-holding folks, the empty nest syndrome is so pervasive, it can take over the most headstrong of parents.
~Shweta Bachchan Nanda

But they fly. It is what fledged birds must do, and she’s always known that. The nest can’t always be full.
~Susan Fletcher

It was hard for me to leave the nest, but my mom is super proud of me. She said, ‘You became independent really quickly, and I’m so proud of you,’ but she misses me all the same.
~Mirai Nagasu

The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the empty nest is learning to put myself first.
~Kim Alexis

Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being ‘given up for a younger woman’ is for a woman… Why do many men get more upset by retirement than women do from the empty nest when their children leave home? When females retire from children, they can try a career; when a man retires from a career, his children are gone.
~Warren Farrell

Skies tempt them to fly. Nests have them back.
~Sonali Gupta

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The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.
~Annalee Newitz

The empty nest is underrated.
~Nora Ephron

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§ VIDEO:
I auditioned for ‘The Rainmaker.’ Nothing. I auditioned for ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.’ Nothing. ‘Antigone‘ was my big break. I got a part as a Roman guard. I carried a spear.
~Ed O’Neill

Most directors that I’ve worked with ‒ I’ve worked with before, especially in Holland ‒ and they know that I’m somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I’m like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.
~Carice van Houten

Once you’re done with the film, it’s almost like empty nest syndrome: your kid has moved out of the house.
~Byron Howard

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If you say you’ve had a nervous breakdown or things aren’t right mentally, people run away from you. They think you’re from ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest,’ you know.
~Frank Bruno

You can’t write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of ‘Cuckoo’s Nest.’
~Victor LaValle

In terms of popular cinema, ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‘ is as near perfection as I can think of.
~Peter Mullan

I turned down ‘Cuckoo’s Nest‘ four times before Jack got it.
~James Caan

‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ which my father had tried to get made for six, seven years, and I for four, was turned down by every studio. Every studio in the world had passed on it.
~Michael Douglas

If it weren’t for ‘Cuckoo’s Nest,’ it would be very difficult for me. It gave me a cushion to live at my artistic pace and not fear I wouldn’t have money to live on.
~Milos Forman

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I worked with Jack Nitzsche for ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ and we’d booked a symphony orchestra. He dismissed them and came with a little man who poured water into glasses of different sizes to make a glass harmonica. And most of the music for the film was that ‒ with some Indian flutes and some drums.
~Milos Forman

I did so many interviews and auditions for films, and it was just zilch. Nothing I did impressed anybody! I could just feel it. It was always, ‘Okay, thank you, Mr. Lloyd.’ Then, out of the blue, ‘Cuckoo’s Nest‘ came to cast. A casting director who sent me up for different things over the years sent me up for that, and it just clicked… and I was cast, and that was great, but it was my first film, so I felt like I was kind of walking around on the set as Walk-On A.
~Christopher Lloyd

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~Omeleto: Nest Egg (13:54) who is worthy of receiving

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~The Amazing Gumball Network: The Nest (4:52) cartoon comedy ‒ newscaster has best lines

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~Guzganius: Cik (7:55) foreign nest, charming story, animated

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~Omeleto: Paranormal Investigators (13:01) goofy, psychic dangers

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No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.
~Edith Wharton

Say! have you ever noticed that the bug called Vanity can cook up more trouble for human beings than any germ that ever built its nest in a brain-cell? It’s a subtle little disease, this fever we call Vanity. No man ever knows he has it, but he can always recognize the symptoms in his neighbor.
~George V Hobart

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I understand the human instinct to want to create a nest and possess things, to show them off, but for me personally, it became less and less interesting.
~Nicolas Berggruen

As a model, it’s a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time, ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There’s absolutely no nest-building.
~Eva Herzigova

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
~Henry Ward Beecher

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I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.
~Estella Warren

I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it’s only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money. I had done network sitcoms. I had a nest egg.
~Lizzy Caplan

I have a nest egg, and I don’t buy above my means.
~Mariska Hargitay

I don’t have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.
~Judd Nelson

Our nest eggs, no matter how small, are safe.
~Nick Clooney

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§ MUSIC:
I remember standing in the crow’s nest as we entered the misty Panama Canal, and the strange sensation as the 4,000-ton ship rose higher and higher inside the lock.
~Christopher Buckley

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.
~John Lennon

I always told my children that if they want to be pilot, go ahead and do it, or if they wanted to get into agriculture, I told them that I will support them. But when they chose music, you feel as if those birds have come back home to the nest.
~Shankar Mahadevan

When I got to sit in Big Bird’s nest with Big Bird and sing the song, ‘Sing. Sing a song. Sing out loud,’ that was my crowning achievement.
~Noah Wyle

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I thought of New York as a free city, like one of those prewar nests of intrigue and licentiousness where exiles and lamsters and refugees found shelter in a tangle of improbable juxtapositions. I had never gotten around to changing my nationality from the one assigned me at birth, but I would have declared myself a citizen of New York City had such a stateless state existed, its flag a solid black.
~Luc Sante

New York means so much to people. If you’re inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it’s been that way since the first skyscraper.
~Griffin Dunne

All my friends were off on gap years, so going to New York alone, at the age of 18, was kind of my flying the nest. It was an amazing experience.
~Bel Powley

There are certain things in life that you never forget. Things that dig deep, things that nest in the hadal zone .
~Samantha Shannon

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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring ‒ these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
~John Burroughs

Well I know the secret places,
And the nests in hedge and tree;
At what doors are friendly faces,
In what hearts are thoughts of me.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You want to know what makes me tick, I’ll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called ‘The Hawk’s Nest.’ Nobody entered that nest that didn’t leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, ‘Isn’t that a wonderful thing.’ And that’s all there is to it.
~Buddy Hackett

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~wamalambo • It’s a Beautiful Day: White Bird (4:17) video proof that boomers dreamed before we destroyed

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~Nest Japan: NEST (Beyond) (3:58) here/now, then beyond

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~Emmet Cohen w/ Lucy Yeghiazaryan: Robbin’s Nest (5:51) intimate setting, somehow prim, jazz rendition

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Birds in their little nests agree;
And ’tis a shameful sight
When children of one family
Fall out, and chide, and fight.
~Isaac Watts

And then; the bird of her dreams couldn’t find shelter in his nest. She flew away to build her own!
~Sonali Gupta

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I’m not planning on giving my kids any of my wealth. They know when their education is over, I’m pushing them out of the nest. The bird you see dead under the nest is the one who didn’t think about the future.
~Kevin O’Leary

As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird’s nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. …a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
~Amelia Barr

Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family.
~Thomas Jefferson

The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you’ve built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they’re brilliant at it.
~Dustin Hoffman

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As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
~author unknown

A jealous wife is like a hornets’ nest in your mattress
~Robert Jordan

I diagnosed my loneliness as premature empty nest syndrome.
~Kristen Schaal

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid,
In every bosom where her nest is made,
Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest,
And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
~William Cowper

Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth,
to some good angel leave the rest;
For Time will teach thee soon the truth,
there are no birds in last year’s nest!
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.
~Rumi

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I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren’t prepared to occupy a position. I’ve seen such pitiful cases in the South barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister’s husband or brother’s wife! stuck away in some little mouse-trap of a room encouraged by one in-law to visit another little birdlike women without any nest eating the crust of humility all their life! Is that the future that we’ve mapped out for ourselves?
~Tennessee Williams

I fell into a hornets’ nest of revolutionary feminism.
~Julian Assange

Every problem in history is due to men, so I’m basically asking for humanity to nest itself in a feminine culture, probably for the next 1,000 years.
~Patch Adams

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Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?
~Ray Bradbury

From a biological viewpoint, patriarchal religion denied women the natural rights of every other mammalian female: the right to choose her stud, to control the circumstances of her mating, to occupy and govern her own nest, or to refuse all males when preoccupied with the important business of raising her young.
~Barbara G Walker

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Here in this moonlit room, I watch you slip
One shoulder from your dress and turn to me;
A polished statue, flushing to the tip
Of marble fingers gradually.
And, like a ripe moon out of flimsy clouds,
Blossoms the shining fullness of your breast.
These curves conceal, this dear perfection shrouds
A soft, miraculous nest.
~Louis Untermeyer

See how that pair of billing doves
With open murmurs own their loves
And, heedless of censorious eyes,
Pursue their unpolluted joys:
No fears of future want molest
The downy quiet of their nest.
~Mary Wortley Montagu

Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.
~Federico Garcia Lorca

For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair.
A man who will Kiss the Flame.
~Jewel

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Women make a terrible mistake because they usually are so desperate to nest that they pick on schlubs and worthless pieces of trash that they pick up in a bar.
~Judy Sheindlin

In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women which makes them such intense haters.
~Anna Brownell Jameson

If I talk to a woman for more than five minutes I can tell you exactly whether she’s an Aidan girl or a Mr. Big girl. Aidan girls are more interested in nurturing relationships and building a nest while Mr. Big girls are more about show and having fun.
~Michael Patrick King

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I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.
~Alexandra Cassavetes

Deep inside her heart, I was feeling my home like a hay made nest.
~M F Moonzajer

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I have nine children… and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.
~Melville Fuller

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they’re older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.
~Gary Oldman

I was raised in a very happy nest by very happy people, and I like to think that those are enough ingredients to make me succeed at Dior.
~Raf Simons

I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: ‘Five Easy Pieces‘, ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.’
~Sam Rockwell

I’ve often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you’re not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You’re… sometimes… they’re gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.
~Elizabeth Edwards

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The hands of little children have bones as delicate as a bird’s — and they fit into a grandparent’s grasp as snugly as a bird into its nest.
~Pam Brown

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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
~William Blake

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He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
~Jeremy Taylor

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People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there’s no one way. It’s your way, your style. At the end of the day, you have to live there. It’s your cocoon, your nest. You have to be happy in it.
~Bryan Batt

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Do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow
because even today I still arrive.
Look at me: I arrive in every second
to be a bud on a spring branch,
to be a tiny bird whose wings are still fragile,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.
~Nhat Hanh

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.
~John Steinbeck

Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest. Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night. Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence. I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way.
~Rabindranath Tagore

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I’ve always been curious about why one man jumps out of a foxhole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest, and his buddy next to him sits there cowering. And my feeling is that the difference is tiny between the two.
~Stephen Lang

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A bird in a nest is secure, but that is not why God gave it wings.
~Matshona Dhliwayo

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They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.
~Jeanette Winterson

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That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
~Chinese Proverb

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They bild their nest among a tree, and lay twice, and both eggs will hatch out if they was laid in a snow bank, — thare aint no such thing as stopping a young crow.
~Josh Billing

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Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.
~Winston Churchill

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Contemplation Pond
© Chet Nickerson

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A fish with a big mouth, like a catfish, they’ve been known to bite people’s legs. Normally not because they’re hungry, but because they’re protecting a nest or something like that.
~Jeremy Wade

Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet ‒ they’ll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.
~Jack Hanna

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For captive gorillas, trees should be available to climb and material such as straw, branches, or bamboo supplied for nest building.
~Dian Fossey

The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion.
~John Burroughs

You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they’re constantly repairing it. It’s as if they live in both elements.
~Audre Lorde

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build,
Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
~Edmund Waller

I love my home comforts and I need to nest to feel grounded.
~Laura Whitmore

Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance.
~Janine Benyus

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No class of artists excels the humming-birds. Their nests are wonders of beauty, delicacy, and architecture — plant down and dried flower petals held together with silvery spider’s web, exquisitely decorated with greyish-white lichens.
~Royal Dixon

The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
~John Burroughs

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@Writers Platform

When you write fiction, you’re like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It’s funny how things come back to you.
~J Courtney Sullivan

Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.
~Thomas Merton

A lot of times, the inspiration for a novel is a messy bird’s nest of shiny things. Little things that don’t make a whole lot of sense or that, no matter how hard you look, cannot be found directly in the finished book.
~Molly O’Keefe

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My head was a magpie’s nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
~Alice Munro

I’m a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
~Walter Kirn

All writers are magpies, right? We’re always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest.
~Stacey D’Erasmo

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My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an area of suspension as in a hanging nest that is almost entirely encapsulated.
~Maxine Kumin

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A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It’s a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
~Barbara Holland

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Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day ‒ that way, you can write three or five words without being “creative” and before you know it, you’re writing.
~Cory Doctorow

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The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.
~Leonardo da Vinci

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For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook’s nest with every twig a duty.
~Mervyn Peake

But how ridiculous that I should bereft simply because I couldn’t spend hours in my world of make-believe! Wasn’t the reality of my life interesting enough? This is surely the time to let go of grievances, I told myself sternly. What good does it do to dwell on them? Brooding on a nest of grudges will only hatch more grief.
~Liza Dalby

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Ah, it is just my imagination that flies, while she is wrapped up in her bedsheets like a nest.
~Kiera L Woodhull

I feel like my dream animal would be a mermaid that could fly and also live in the trees. She has a nest, almost like a bird. She feeds her babies like a bird, like, chews the food first and then feeds it to them through her mouth.
~Banks

A weaver bird’s nest is an appropriate metaphor for my dreams; for both know the art of resistance.
~MadhusmitaBeura

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In America, even your menus have the gift of language… The Chef’s own Vienna Roast. A hearty, rich meat loaf, gently seasoned to perfection and served in a creamy nest of mashed farm potatoes and strictly fresh garden vegetables. Of course, what you get is cole slaw and a slab of meat, but that doesn’t matter because the menu has already started your juices going. Oh, those menus. In America, they are poetry.
~Laurie Lee

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Some critics are like chimney-sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of cinders, and then sing from the top of the house as if they had built it.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What has been done in the world ‒ the works of genius ‒ cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.
~Glenda Millard

Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
~Abraham Cowley

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Prewritten Prompt: nest

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The idea of the nest in the bird’s mind, where does it come from?
~Joseph Joubert

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
~P D James

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
~Pope Francis

And thus my sympathies are with men, and streets, and city gates, and towers from which the great bells sound solemnly and slow, and cathedral doors, where venerable statues, holding books in their hands, look down like sentinels upon the church-going multitude, and the birds of the air come and build their nests in the arms of saints and apostles.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse’s nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.
~Graham Greene

When I ate vanilla frosting straight from the can, I could feel God standing right nest to me like a real best friend, watching, and smiling, and wishing he had a mouth.
~Augusten Burroughs

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Shiva… is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the beauty of things. Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme, Empty darkness under the death-tent wings. She will build a nest of the swan’s bones and hatch a new brood, Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed.
~Robinson Jeffers

My heart lives in so many places. With so many people. But God whispers to me that I really have only one home, and that is with Him. I will never be content on this earth. I will always be a nomad. It was meant to be that way. My heart was created with a desire for a home, a nest, a sanctuary, and that can be found only with Him in Heaven.
~Katie Davis

When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God “stirs up our nests” and bids us fly upward.
~Theodore L Cuyler

It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even now appears. But the power is in us, and that power is finally to be revealed. And what a revelation will that be!
~Horace Bushnell

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The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
~Black Elk

God is the nest we build together.
~Gene Wolfe

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My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.
~Chloe Sevigny

The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It’s like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I’m trying to nest.
~Carey Mulligan

I’m such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that’s a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn’t that interested in moving from place to place.
~Bell Hooks

I love my home comforts and I need to nest to feel grounded.
~Laura Whitmore

There’s nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It’s a nest where I go to heal.
~Tim Gunn

I’m a big believer in small, dark, cozy bedrooms. I would describe myself as introspective ‒ I feel things first, and then I think them through ‒ and I need the enveloping comfort of a little squirrel’s nest when I have to retreat from the world to recharge.
~Michael Bastian

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

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I was at that time like a fledgling swallow living high up in a niche in the eaves, who from time to time peeps out over the top of its nest with its little bright eyes.
~Pierre Loti

Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought ‒ proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.
~John Ruskin

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§ The Exercise

question #22

God bless this quest
the need for nest
the search for rest
this probe attest

a prayer hard pressed
earnest plea for nothing less
honesty as honored guest
tell me, is this all in jest?

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This House

Empty nest
Loneliness
Emptiness
Next request
At his behest
His last bequest
His friendliest:
Be my guest
In happiness

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heavenly

cresting equalities
dens of iniquity
tests for veracity
stress of moralities

breasts cupped handily
sins of brevity
depths of depravity
cream of meritocracy

consider its entirety
the whole of humanity
banquets to nurture me
the rest of eternity

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5s ‘n 7s

treetop life nesting cliffside
daring past experience
tempting the patience of fate
willing for the adventure…
escaped the plummet too late

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soft addictive downy nest
dithering development
defenestrated at last
tough love, avian version
fall flat fast or learn to fly

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sudden death’s green arena
glade, nest of trees, cattail pond
no marbled words, warbled songs
maple coffin, oaken throng
token silence, life gets on

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Cirrocumulus
Cumulonimbus
clouds nested layers
sweet sweat of angels
fleshed out shades of grey
colors of heartbreak
concert at sunset

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holiday hijinks
targeting nest of plotters
swap the present hour
replace Christmas with X-mas
mistake presents for Presence

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black background of stars
history of our future
nest to let: toilet

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dog at home, the best
private parking space, paid nest
week-long weekend next

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

I rest in rainbows and I nest in clouds
I’d live in raindrops if only I knew how
~author unknown

When you’re a second- or third-generation migrant, your ties to your heritage can feel a little precarious. You’re a foreigner here, you’re a tourist back in your ancestral land, and home is the magpie nest you construct of the bits of culture you’re able to hold close.
~Ash Sarkar

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The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.
~Victor Hugo

Lions do not ask one another to their lairs, nor do birds keep an open nest… A deep sense of personal property is common to all these creatures. Thousands of years hence they may have acquired some willingness to share things with their friends. Or rather, dogs may; cats, I think not.
~Max Beerbohm

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He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

I love ’30 Rock’ because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.
~Tracy Morgan

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When you make a mistake, don’t make a second one ‒ keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest.
~George Horace Lorimer

…because, tragically, we both happen to be domestically impaired. If we were birds, our nest would consist of a single twig with the eggs attached via Scotch tape.
~Dave Barry

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By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest.
~Ashanti

You’ll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.
~Cynthia Lewis

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Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest of lovers’ beds, baby cribs, meal tables, all the solid commerce of life in this earth, and feel apart, enclosed in a wall of glass.
~Sylvia Plath

The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks who more often than not were ignored, mocked, or viciously persecuted by society and its institutions.
~Tom Robbins

The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.
~Norbert Wiener

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The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks.
~Robert T Bakker

So many parents these days are totally cool with their kids living on the couch the whole time. It’s like a new thing with families. But you’ve got to leave the nest and get out there.
~Blake Anderson

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A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.
~Khalil Gibran

The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Notice how your memories nest, one inside another ‒ so close-fitting that you can’t peel one free without releasing others.
~Dr SunWolf

After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts ‒ like a Chinese nest of boxes ‒ oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front ‒ in our ancestors, back and back until.
~Walter de La Mare

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.
~Henry David Thoreau

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The Olio
Quotes harvested from: https://azquotes.com, https://bqotd.com, https://brainyquote.com, https://quotegarden.com, https://wisesayings.com

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Fun Tarts: https://gocomics.com

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The Salmagundi
Video Harvest: https://venmo.com, https://vimeo.com, https://youtube.com

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Prompt Words, with links: https://wordgrove.com/themes-list.html

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Assorted collection of earlier work, with…
Prologue, first taste and opening chapter of the book, Archipelago
https://wordgrove.com

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