Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.
In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.
In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all mammals, a fifth of all reptiles, and a sixth of all birds are headed toward oblivion. The losses are occurring all over: in the South Pacific and in the North Atlantic, in the Arctic and the Sahel, in lakes and on islands, on mountaintops and in valleys.
I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.
I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.
A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished.
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.
We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.
Be not like the bird that sees the seed, but not the trap.
May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them - then men are old.
Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.
We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.
The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.
Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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