Quote by Jennifer Ackerman

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's…

— Douglas Coupland

“One of the most remarkable of all ornithological discoveries was the realisation that birds in temperate regions undergo enormous seasonal changes in their internal…

— Tim Birkhead

To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should dehumanize ourselves,…

— William Beebe

I wonder if birds want to drive as much as humans want to fly.

— Nikhil Saluja

You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent…

— Elizabeth Aston

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

— Roger Tory Peterson

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

— Tennessee Williams

The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly…

— August Krogh

As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones.

— Bruce Chatwin

Migratory birds connect people, ecosystems, and nations. They are symbols of peace and of an interconnected planet.

— Antonio Guterres

“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

Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.

— Mark Nepo