Action Quote by Peter Matthiessen

When feeding time comes around, there is nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.

— Louis L'Amour

“the ferret, hunting, eyes on the ground, never hears footsteps of the hawk”

— Andrew Vachss

The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.

— Richard Jefferies

“Whether the scouring, sexless eye of the bird or beast of prey disperses and sees all or concentrates and evades all saving that for…

— Mervyn Peake

“Their rapid, shifting, dancing motion had been so deft and graceful that it was difficult to believe that hunger was the cause of it…

— J.A. Baker

For the birds there is not a time that they tell, but the point vierge between darkness and light, between being and nonbeing. You…

— Thomas Merton

“likeness of a bird of prey. She’s terrible and wonderful to look at, with soft, bronze wings that grow from the bottom of her…

— Zoraida Córdova

“Suddenly, over the slope, as if tethered to a cord of air drawing quickly upward, came a Northern Harrier, motionless but for its rising.…

— William Least Heat Moon

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

Even when a bird walks, one feels it has wings.

— Antoine-Marin Lemierre

But who does hawk at eagles with a dove?

— George Herbert

As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.

— Ovid