Bird Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“We are accustomed to say in New England that few and fewer pigeons visit us every year. Our forests furnish no mast for them.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.

— Albert Einstein

“There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest.…

— Henry David Thoreau

The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?

— Joseph Joubert

How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.

— Vernor Vinge

Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.

— Andrew O'Hagan

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

— Jean Craighead George

“I’ve figured it out, something that was never clear to me before–how all creation transposes itself out of the world deeper and deeper into…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless…

— Steve Allen

They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult yet innocent…

— Henry David Thoreau

Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their…

— Georges Braque