The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights.
Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.
Feed the birds in winter; in return, they will feed your soul with the look of gratitude!
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want to wear one of those surgical masks everyone in China had during bird flu. There are a lot more bird-flu boys at large.
Be not like the bird that sees the seed, but not the trap.
Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well. "
Evolution does not isolate us from the rest of the Kosmos, it unites us with the rest of the Kosmos: the same currents that produced birds from dust and poetry from rocks produce egos from ids and sages from egos.
I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here and a bird there. " The beginning stage is always the sound. From that, slowly, stories come about based on what I'm reading or thinking at the time, but if I didn't have that sound I don't know what I would do.
Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
Ever make mistakes in life? Let's make them birds. Yeah, they're birds now.
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.
Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.
People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud.
No empty handed man can lure a bird
Every bird will follow it's specie.
It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H. D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.
Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.
My shoe is off. My foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold.
When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do, of the liberation and pragmatism of belief.