Finches Quote by Charles Darwin

“Genetic selection for early egg production, to reduce time and money 'wasted' on feeding and housing unproductive birds for six months, results in eggs…

— Karen Davis

“I have stated, that in the thirteen species of ground-finches, a nearly perfect gradation may be traced, from a beak extraordinarily thick, to one…

— Charles Darwin

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of…

— Mark Twain

The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.

— Guy Davenport

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

“The daily hummingbird assaults existence with improbability.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

While I am watching the birds I believe I am comparatively immune from the assaults of life. The very indifference to humanity of these…

— Anna Kavan

I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.

— Martin Luther

“One of the truly bizarre things about our current cultural situation is that the leading figures of the scientific establishment seem genuinely amazed that…

— Phillip E. Johnson

I rarely find motive in bird vomit.

— Jack Hodgins

You could probably ask anyone who loves Fincher films, and they couldn't answer why.

— Stellan Skarsgard

we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.

— Rebecca Wells