#bird

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. ↗

— Saskya Pandita

#avoiding #birds #cage #cause #danger

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble. ↗

— Roger Tory Peterson

#birds #environment #indicators #know #soon

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. ↗

— Roger Tory Peterson

#along #been #before #between #binoculars

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though. ↗

— Roger Tory Peterson

#america #bird #calls #every #i

I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy. ↗

— Jimmy Piersall

#better #bird #crazy #doing #guys

I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#accompany #after #birds #down #dozen

Consider the birds. Be wise as serpents. ↗

— Hilda Doolittle

#consider #serpents #wise

For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive. ↗

— Al Purdy

#beast #bird #flowers #man #marvel

I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#audition #birdie #bitten #bug #bye

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. ↗

— James Whitcomb Riley

#bird #call #duck #i #i see