Bird Quote by Richard Bach

He spent a lot of time flying. He learnt to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all…

— Anonymous

“Why is it,” Jonathan puzzled, “that the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he is free, and that he…

— Richard Bach

A moment later Jonathan’s body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. “Don’t let them spread silly rumors about me, or…

— Richard Bach

Man studied birds for centuries, trying to learn how to make a machine to fly like them. He never did do the trick; his…

— John W. Campbell

Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

— Ellen Glasgow

“The classes changed, with years, from wide soaring poems in flight to hushed talk about Jonathan before and after practice; to long involved recitations…

— Richard Bach

Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight how…

— Richard Bach

“And with that, Jonathan held in thought an image of the great gull-flocks on the shore of another time, and he knew with practiced…

— Richard Bach

“There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Most birds are geniuses. We had one that became a pet; he learned to talk, use tools and solve problems.

— Jean Craighead George

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

— William Blake

“Birds are magical. Their flight alone can arouse a clever thought.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson