"A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing,……" — J.R.R. Tolkien

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• Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. — Neil Armstrong
• What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and… — David Attenborough
• Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone… — David Attenborough
• Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know… — David Attenborough
• I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime… — John James Audubon
• It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you. — Abu Bakr
• If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that… — Douglas Adams
• What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
• Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California… — Roseanne Barr
• I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. — James M. Barrie
• I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. — Lynda Barry
• A fish may love a bird, but where would they live? — Drew Barrymore

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