I need the eggs

The title is a reference to one of the best Woody Allen films, Annie Hall.  I thought it would compliment today's subject matter quite well. Today's subject being my yard chickens and my father's sunflowers. All the captions are Walt Whitman quotes. He's my favorite poet alongside E.E Cummings and Shel Silverstein. I have just been lounging around outside with the sunflowers and chickens all day. My soul has been uplifted by the beautiful sight. 

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained. I stand and look at them long and long.

The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Strong and content I travel the open road.

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.