- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
Birds Quotes
Lines on birds, freedom, and a favorite mobile game.
These birds quotes include a small, personal habit of buying birds from a pet store only to release them, a quiet gesture toward Freedom.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn't escape the city. I like to wake and hear birds tweeting, not the low drone of traffic.
- Choirs
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listened to birds and crickets, looking for the ways that rhythm appears most naturally in the world. I listened to the Smithsonian's field recordings of pygmy choirs from Africa.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have chosen to bring future generations into this world of rising seas and warming temperatures, droughts and floods, heat waves and wildfires, a world in which one in four mammals and one in eight birds are at risk of disappearing forever. While the damage we've done is irreversible, that doesn't give us the right to do nothing.
- Nov 07, 2020
The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.
- Lemons
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an avocado tree at my place in Los Angeles - it's the smoother-skinned one, which tends to be a little stringy. Often the birds or raccoons get the avocados before I can harvest them. I have figs, too, which are great with prosciutto, of course. I have limes and lemons, which I use to make lemonade.
- Flight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dragons are basically our pipe-dreams of what birds would be if they still looked liked ancient dinosaurs but followed evolution's flight plan.
- Nov 07, 2020
When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wild geese have so much less fat than their domestic brethren that, as far as the kitchen is concerned, the two birds should be considered different species altogether - so much so that they require opposite roasting methods.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them. The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020