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“Birds prefer trees with dead branches,’ said Caravaggio. ‘They have complete vistas from where they perch. They can take off in any direction.”

— Michael Ondaatje

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in…

— Corrie Ten Boom

“Birds alone can afford to perch on weak branches.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Birds always seem like they're swooping down on you.

— James Wolk

“Some birds learn how to fly only after falling off of a cliff.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“When I saw them in Africa, I thought these birds were the greatest fliers of all. Hardly beating their wings, they fly for hours,…

— Jerzy Kosiński

I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them…

— Quentin Blake

“Bar-tailed godwits flying with curlew, with knot, with plover; seldom alone, seldom settling; snuffling eccentrics; long-nosed, loud-calling sea-rejoicers; their call a snorting, sneezing, mewing,…

— J.A. Baker

“I guess everyone has a bird urge when they look down heights, a desire to jump, without wing or buoyant sail. Fear of heights…

— Amruta Patil

“Birds that cannot fly high into the sky rejoice exceedingly and sing sweet melodies when they get to the top of the tallest tree…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

About five years ago I saw a mockingbird make a straight vertical descent from the roof gutter of a four-story building. It was an…

— Annie Dillard