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

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.
William Bartram

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.
Larry Wilcox

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
John Adams

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.
Eubie Blake

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
Doug Coupland

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
Roger Tory Peterson

Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.
Robert T. Bakker

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

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Rose Kennedy

But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.
John James Audubon

Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar.
Peter R. Grant

Consider the birds. Be wise as serpents.
Hilda Doolittle

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.
Rebecca West

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

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.
Phillip E. Johnson

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
David Letterman

Feathers predate birds.
Robert T. Bakker

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Martin Henry Fischer

Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.
Rachel Ward