#birds

Feathers predate birds. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

#feathers

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. ↗

— John Adams

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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

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Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious. ↗

— David Attenborough

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I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could. ↗

— John James Audubon

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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds. ↗

— John James Audubon

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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. ↗

— Lynda Barry

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Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels. ↗

— William Bartram

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It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

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