Nature Quote by S. M. Stirling

“Once there was a boy. When the boy was 6 years old, his father gave him a falcon to train. Falcons are raptors -…

— Jace City of Bones

Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.

— Robert T. Bakker

“Instead his father took the bird, now tame and trusting, in his hands and broke its neck. ‘I told you to make it obedient,’…

— Cassandra Clare

“All they did was stir up desire, and longing, and hopelessness, a trio of miserable caged wildcats that had been installed in me without…

— Alice Munro

“This was because the hawks and falcons in the castle mews were all Lancre birds and therefore naturally possessed of a certain “sod you”…

— Terry Pratchett

“I ran again, losing myself amongst my water-wolves. Some of the soldiers were taking to the sky, flapping upward, backtracking. So my wolves grew…

— Sarah J. Maas

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every…

— John Gay

“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

“Hunting hawks did not belong in cages, no matter how much a man coveted their grace, no matter how golden the bars. They were…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“They’re in love. Like black vultures. And termites. Yes, turtle doves and swans aren’t the only animals that mate for life. Ugly, toilet-licking termites…

— Jandy Nelson

“When the lion falls the lesser beasts move in: the jackals and the vultures and the feral dogs.”

— George R.R. Martin

“... like a berserk raptor thrown into a nest of hibernating kittens...”

— Iain M. Banks