Animals Quote by Elizabeth Goudge

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they…

— David Attenborough

The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of…

— John Burroughs

For most of my life, I didn't pay attention to birds.

— Jonathan Franzen

Laistrygonians. Cannibals. Northern Giants. Sasquatch legend. Yep, yep. They are not birds. Not birds of North America.

— Rick Riordan

No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.

— Emma Lazarus

The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of…

— John Burroughs

Of all types of birds, birds of prey have always fascinated people.

— Jim Knight

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

I would love to be more specific, but really, any type of bird is the funniest animal. They have to move awkwardly when walking.…

— Kurt Braunohler

Most birds are geniuses. We had one that became a pet; he learned to talk, use tools and solve problems.

— Jean Craighead George

All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.

— Alan Coren

The radical otherness of birds is integral to their beauty and their value. They are always among us but never of us. Their indifference…

— Jonathan Franzen