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Quotes About Birds

Look at nature - look at birds, look at fish. Things that look good, work good. People don't get the message of ergonomics.
~ Luigi Colani
Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories.
~ Jacques Perrin
In nature, disease-causing strains of avian influenza rarely spread far because the birds sicken and die before they can fly to spread it to others.
~ Michael Greger
Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.
~ Saadi
Outback birds need regular water, and many of these are thriving. Those doing better than ever include zebra finches, wood ducks, Bourke's parrots and possibly emus. On the other hand many insect-eaters are doing badly, because grazing stock destroy the plants on which insects breed. Seed-eaters themselves suffer when grasses are grazed too low to set seed. Dams create plenty of losers as well as winners, and that's something to keep in mind.
~ Tim Low
We talked about plans for Christmas Day. My father used to like to go shooting, but my mother more or less forbade him. She said it wasn't nice to go round bowling over rabbits and blasting birds out of the sky on the day when our Saviour was born to bring peace and harmony to the world.
~ Tim Martin
The Nuttery NT065 Classic Seed Feeder, Extra Large.
~ Timothy Ferriss
I grew up with two different parakeets - one that lived for five years, and one that lived for 13 years - so I always had a bit of an attraction to birds and it's an oddly good fit to be in a movie about birdwatchers.
~ Jim Parsons
He repeated her name over and over again. The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
~ Oscar Wilde
now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.
~ Oscar Wilde
There was a rustle of chirruping sparrows in the green lacquer leaves of the ivy, and the blue cloud-shadows chased themselves across the grass like swallows.
~ Oscar Wilde
Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.
~ P.C. Cast
Birds, except when broiled and in the society of a cold bottle, bored him stiff.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
When Cynthia smiles, said young Bingo, the skies are blue; the world takes on a roseate hue; birds in the garden trill and sing, and Joy is king of everything, when Cynthia smiles. He coughed, changing gears. When Cynthia frowns - What the devil are you talking about? I'm reading you my poem. The one I wrote to Cynthia last night. I'll go on, shall I? No! No? No. I haven't had my tea.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
If I meet a bird, I wave a friendly hand at it, to let it know that I wish it well, but I don't want to crouch behind a bush observing its habits.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you.
~ Pablo Neruda
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
~ Pablo Neruda
Como se acuerda con los pajaros la traduccion de sus idiomas? How is the translation of their languages Arranged with the birds?
~ Pablo Neruda
And now, beloved, through the crackling sea we return like blind birds
~ Pablo Neruda
I have said that you sang in the wind like the pines and like the masts. Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage. You gather things to you like an old road. You are peopled with echoes and nostalgic voices. I awoke and at times birds fled and migrated that had been sleeping in your soul.
~ Pablo Neruda
Los pájaros nocturnos picotean las primeras estrellas que centellean como mi alma cuando te amo.
~ Pablo Neruda
Little birds are messengers, they carry secrets of the dead to the living..
~ Pamela Anderson
Crows are ferociously intelligent birds. I used to watch them gather as the men set off for another day of war. Drums, pipes, trumpets, the rhythmical pounding of swords on shields—to the fighters, this music meant honour, glory, courage, comradeship…To the crows, it only ever meant food.
~ Pat Barker
My approach to Charleston is always silent and distracted, but I come under full sail, with hissing silk and memories a wing above me in the shapes of the birds I love best
~ Pat Conroy