Characteristics Quote by Peter R. Grant

For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is…

— John Burnside

The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification.…

— Karl Landsteiner

In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects…

— George Crumb

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

— Roman Jakobson

Even with insects - some can sing, some can't.

— Kobayashi Issa

Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have a definite…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in…

— George Crumb

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

— Alma Gluck

To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in…

— Peter R. Grant

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

— Pierre Schaeffer

“The individual parts played by other instrumentalists-- crickets or earthworms, for instance-- may not have the sound of music by themselves, but we hear…

— Lewis Thomas

You really can't categorize my music, it's human music.

— Kendrick Lamar