#birds

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#birds #hours #imitating #kindly #man

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes. ↗

— William Bartram

#be the first #birds #even #first #food

The ocean is 20 minutes away. Nature surrounds me 24/7. I wake up to the sounds of birds chirping. I also love that I can go out to dinner in jeans and flip-flops. ↗

— Jordana Brewster

#away #birds #dinner #go #i

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#birds #environment #find #god #i

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. ↗

— Robert Burton

#anxiety #birds #cage #chain #climb

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#because #being #birds #finer #may

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#beings #birds #change #different #different place

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#books #groups #self-help #where

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. ↗

— Martin Henry Fischer

#birds #could #eat #except #half

People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#birds #like #me #people #seals