Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
As the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the sea birds raced and ran upon the beaches. Then that same impulse to flight seized...
I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.
Ron seems to be enjoying the celebrations. said Hermione. Don’t pretend you didn’t see him. He wasn’t exactly hiding it, was — ?The door behind them burst open. To Harry’s horror, Ron came in, laughin...
I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attem...
Swifts,flushed from chimneys, catch fire and swoop like blown sparks out over the ramparts and extinguish themselves in the sea.
A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve.
I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.
The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a...
In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
I have never known birds of different species to flock together. The very concept is unimaginable. Why, if that happened, we wouldn't stand a chance! How could we possibly hope to fight them?
Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They were manifesting as the earth's bright-colored nerve endings, the sun's d...
Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
O thrush your song is passing sweet But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.
In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise. Clare has turned the second bedroom into a wonder cabinet, full of small sculptures and drawings pinned up on every inch of wall spa...
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds...