Bird Quotes

"I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar"

Peter R. Grant, Scientist

"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, Politician

"Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection"

Peter R. Grant, Scientist

"This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer"

John Hench, Artist

"The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc"

John Hench, Artist

"Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony"

William Christopher Handy, Musician

"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds"

Aesop, Author

"When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather"

Amos Oz, Writer

"In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety"

Aiden Wilson Tozer, Clergyman

"When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

"My heart is like a singing bird"

Christina Rossetti, Poet

"I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them"

Roger Tory Peterson, Environmentalist

"I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though"

Roger Tory Peterson, Environmentalist

"Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy"

Roger Tory Peterson, Environmentalist

"I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh"

Erich Maria Remarque, Writer

"In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm"

Alan Perlis, Scientist

"I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor"

Jack Prelutsky, Poet

"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds"

Gore Vidal, Novelist

"I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird"

Ethel Merman, Musician

"Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement"

Dick Armey, Politician

"I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here"

Morris West, Writer

"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing"

Eric Berne, Psychologist

"I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?"

Little Richard, Musician

"I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment"

Pat Buckley, Clergyman

"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest"

J. G. Holland, Novelist

"The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring"

Burl Ives, Musician

"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet

"Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc"

Sergei Eisenstein, Director

"Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird"

Paul Eldridge, Educator

"In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music"

George Crumb, Composer

"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"

William Lyon Phelps, Educator

"Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird"

Joe Pantoliano, Actor

"I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain"

Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist

"What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?"

Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist

"I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me"

George Washington Carver, Scientist

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