662 Quotes About Birds

I don't think I can ever look upon blackwings again with anything but horror. They are creatures of my nightmares now, companions with death the way rain and clouds are best friends. The land is their dinner plate, and they feast upon us when we drop onto it, lifeless and rotting.

The Peregrine sees and remembers patterns we do not know exist: the neat squares of orchard and woodland, the endlessly varying quadrilateral shapes of fields.

Zadnjič sem stopila na tla in po nesreči zravnalacelo mesto.Od takrat naprej držim noge v zraku.Na njih gnezdijo male ptice.

...And a tree stump became a very large, very pink, very perplexed looking g bird, who sat sprawled on the ground, wings akimbo, as if shocked by its own existence. Which, Xan reasoned, the poor thing probably was

The same little honeyeater visited her on the veranda while she ate her toast. She dropped a few crumbs for it and the bird came closer to her than yesterday morning.

Humans have been growing food for themselves since the dawn of time. Indeed, many plants have developed a dependance on us, just as some plants require digestion by birds to activate their seeds. We do our part by planting seeds in healthy soil, watering them, weeding them, and leaving them in peace. They return the favor by growing fruits and seeds and flowers that we like to eat.

Trelkovsky had never undestood why people insisted on comparing the noise of birds to music. Birds don't sing, they scream. And in the morning they scream in chorus.

Birds of a feather flock together ...only in good weather!

One fine morning, I awoke to discover that, during the night, I had learned to understand the language of birds. I have listened to them ever since. They say: 'Look at me!' or: 'Get out of here!' or: 'Let's fuck!' or: 'Help!' or: 'Hurrah!' or: 'I found a worm!' and that's all they say. And that, when you boil it down, is about all we say. (Which of those things am I saying now?)