All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
John Burroughs
SpringBirdsFindEvidenceEven
The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.
Ziggy Marley
GoodSunGood ThingsBirdsTrees
Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like birds in the evening nesting in a tree.
Andrew Motion
TreeDayMeBirdsEveningBack
Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.
Sam Graves
PeopleBirdsFishPrioritiesProtect
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
ManI AmBirdsBetterI CanLiving
I grew up really loving old-school horror such as 'Halloween' and 'The Birds.'
Maika Monroe
BirdsLovingHorrorUpHalloween
My work always comes from the same source - from movement. It doesn't necessarily come from an outside idea, though the source can be something small or large that I've seen, often birds or other animals. The seeing can then provoke the imagining.
Merce Cunningham
WorkBirdsSmallSeeingMovement
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
FriendFunMeBirdsDownAnimals
The gene that enables birds to learn songs can become cancer-causing. There is no normal physiological process that can't be bastardized by the disease.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
BirdsProcessLearnBecomeNormal
Life on a factory farm is well-nigh unbearable for the animals or birds, and it is often foul for the women and men who process the meat that results - especially in factories for chicken parts. But do not sentimentalize. Do not imagine barnyard life is a bowl of cherries.
Ian Hacking
LifeWomenMenBirdsProcessFarm
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Browning
BusinessGreatMenClimbBirds
I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
Caitlin Moran
LoveBirdsSmallRoundGothic
Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.
Robert T. Bakker
BirdsSmallLikeEvolved
Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff.
Mike Thompson
LoveBirdsWaxStuff
As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.
Michael Moore
LoveBirdsFarI LoveAs Far As
The ocean is 20 minutes away. Nature surrounds me 24/7. I wake up to the sounds of birds chirping. I also love that I can go out to dinner in jeans and flip-flops.
Jordana Brewster
NatureLoveOceanMeDinnerBirds
When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.
Donald Hall
DayFlowersWindowBirdsBetterSit
The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.
Chuck Jones
ValueFlowersMeBirdsUnexpected
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
Arthur Miller
HomeBirdsStoryPlayStructureHow
I love the way ravens fly; they are the most acrobatic and daring birds.
Philip Pullman
LoveBirdsFlyWayDaringMost
If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.
Peter Zumthor
RainLightSunBirdsBuildingYou
I grew up in a haunting postindustrial landscape where prehistoric ferns grew among tens of railway tracks surmounted by brilliant arc lights where birds nested and sang in the dead of night, because for them, it was day.
Timothy Morton
DayBirdsNightLandscapeLightsUp
The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.
Richard Jefferies
LifeFearBirdsWatchingImpression
I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
Lynda Barry
LifeLiveTimeBirdsReadingNever
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