#birds

I don’t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?’ And I always say, well, when you say that, you’ve also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that’s got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate… ↗

— David Attenborough

#birds #christian #christianity #creation #god

You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment. ↗

— Karen Allen

#birds #bouncing #environment #hear #i

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. ↗

— Charles Lindbergh

#choose #had #i #rather #than

Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#birds #bully #feather #lawless #together

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#birds #either #else #ever #find

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#birds #except #give #joy #make

Every time I decide I want a child I get another pet. I have 3 dogs, 13 birds and 3 horses, what does that tell you? ↗

— Alyssa Milano

#birds #child #decide #does #dogs

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#birds #cage #desperate #equally #get

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#always #art #be a man #beauty #beings

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats. ↗

— Rebecca West

#birds #cats #did #done #francis