Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead…

But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.

— John James Audubon

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Soft feathers cannot make a cruel bird kind”

— Munia Khan

Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.

— Isaac Bickerstaffe

“A bird's beauty lies in its feathers, but its strength lies in its wings.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

As we're leaving the King's Arms Hotel after Sunday lunch, I watch a beautiful white dove walking down the wet road. A car approaches…

— Antony Sher

“Birds, unlike us, lack countenance. But they make us smile when they connecting the sky with their dazzling feathers. They amaze us with how…

— Susan Ligori

“Featherweight by Suzy Kassem One evening, I sat by the ocean and questioned the moon about my destiny. I revealed to it that I…

— Suzy Kassem

All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had…

— Toni Morrison

Charred bits of black silk swirl into the air, and pearls clatter to the stage… I’m in a dress of the exact design of…

— Suzanne Collins

It occurs to me one evening as I'm feeding the birds that all I did was put two birds in the aviary, some food…

— William Wharton

Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still…

— Loren Eiseley

Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth…

— Charles Dickens

Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air.

— Francois Arago

Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a…

— Jared Diamond