Bird Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for…

— Gore Vidal

“Haunting the library as a kid, reading poetry books when I was not reading bird books, I had been astonished at how often birds…

— Kenn Kaufman

The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself,…

— Colleen McCullough

When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment,…

— Maile Meloy

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings…

— Thomas Hardy

Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal…

— Joseph Addison

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway,…

— Patrick MacGill

And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great…

— Frances Sargent Osgood

Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh…

— Galileo Galilei

Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and…

— Guy Murchie

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

— e. e. cummings

“He unfixes the metal notch and slips his hand around the body of the bird. Feels its heat, its small heart beating. He stares…

— Nina Schuyler