#bird

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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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely. ↗

— Dave McKean

#cage #freedom #courage

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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