Big Quote by Michael Shellenberger

Wind power, if not properly planned and sited, can harm birds and bats (although Danish studies of 10,000 bird kills revealed that almost all…

— David Suzuki

Danish studies of 10,000 birds killed revealed that almost all died in collisions with buildings, cars and wires; only 10 were killed by windmills.…

— David Suzuki

Wind energy threatens golden eagles, bald eagles, burrowing owls, red-tailed hawks, Swainson's hawks, American kestrels, white-tailed kites, peregrine falcons, and prairie falcons, among many…

— Michael Shellenberger

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

Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are…

— Nigel Lawson

“For the inactive windmills, even the winds from the bird wings is a hope!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

When not protected by law, by popular favor or superstition, or by other special circumstances, [birds] yield very readily to the influences of civilization,…

— George Perkins Marsh

“Wind turbines typically fail in abnormally high wind speeds, as that is when they are most stressed.”

— Steven Magee

“If the wind is going the right way, some birds like to spread their wings and hang in the air, appearing not to move…

— Kyo Maclear

Birds which are the same color as the foliage in which they nest are less likely to be disturbed by other birds who want…

— Robert Benchley

Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always…

— David Attenborough

Forbeare not sowing because of birds.

— George Herbert