birds quotes

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

I’ve always been fascinated by everything with wings.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.

Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework.

I noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.