Bird Quote by Jim Elliot

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

— Roger Tory Peterson

Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time…

— Roger Tory Peterson

Some people are mistaken, they think birds need feed to survive, but they don't. The main reason to feed birds is to enjoy them.

— Maggie Elizabeth Jones

Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in…

— Ingrid Newkirk

Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such…

— Jonathan Franzen

Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day, one of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't…

— Jonathan Franzen

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

— Byron Dorgan

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

— Jonathan Franzen

Birds are an ecological litmus paper.

— Roger Tory Peterson

A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.

— Amit Ray

People should relate to nature as birds do. Birds don't run around carefully preparing fields, planting seeds, and harvesting food. They don't create anything…

— Masanobu Fukuoka