#bird

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

The early bird gets the worm.The early worm... gets eaten. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#early #early bird #eaten #gets #worm

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#broken #egg #i #joy #little

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live? ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#fish #live #love #may #where

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

— William Bartram

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

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ↗

— Hal Borland

#accuse #bird #challenge #ideology #squirrel

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 am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#being #bird #free #human #human being

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