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“So, are you in the tree for any particular reason or are you indulging a long-held desire to be a bird?”

— Mandy Goff

“My grandparents... planted their land up with trees, both those native... and exotics which stood in memory of the countries where they had lived.”

— Robert Macfarlane

“though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken?”

— Lorrie Moore

“I guessed it was a migratory bird, too innocent to be wary of the spiders in the jungle grass. It worried be to think…

— Paul Theroux

“You're like one of those birds from the Summer Isles, aren't you? A pretty little talking bird, repeating all the pretty little words they…

— George R.R. Martin

“And he rose, brontosaurus-like, to his place among the treetops.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“She’d spent forever trying to find him something personal, settling on a miniature Albertosaurus covered in deep violet feathers. She knew it was silly,…

— Shannon Messenger

“I was forced to eat crow. I was so embarrassed that I would have eaten any other bird, including ostrich.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I wondered which other phrases he´d plucked. I felt like a bird he kept for quills.”

— Naoise Dolan

“Cut down no trees, for they are home to the birds you adore.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“IT is easy to be rude on the Continent. You just shout and call people names of a zoological character.”

— George Mikes

“...he picked me up in his arms, as if I was as light as a feather, which I am not, unless it was a…

— Helen Fielding