The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some day, and for a minute you feel a happy pain, but...

Birds are flying over the garden. What are you doing inside the house? Join them! If you can’t join them, at least open the window and greet them!

A hanged sparrow! Who would ever think of hanging a sparrow? It’s like flavoring borscht with two mushrooms instead of just one—it’s too much!

Newly-born books are like birds… they shouldn’t be kicked out of the nest until they’re capable of flying. Wendy Anne Darling 5-1-15

We would only order the housing of birds if there was an outbreak in this country.

I know my breasts, smallas plums, would win no blue ribbons.But in your hands they tremble and fillwith song like plump, white birds.

When the silent flamingo dances pink with desire, I’ll be there, sipping on owl stares and kitten curls.

What I saw was just one eyeIn the dawn as I was going:A bird can carry all the skyIn that little button glowing.Never in my life I wentSo deep into the firmament.

If we learn to read the birds-and their behaviors and vocalizations-through them, we can read the world at large… if we replace collision with connection, learn to read these details, feel at home, relax, and...

Birds feed; then they nest. Paint them any color you want, send them halfway around the world, but they’ll always find a way back. And eventually they’ll show their true colors again.

Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!

It can be contained in domestic birds. It can be eliminated in domestic birds, but at the current level of money, it cannot be contained.

First came him, then came I, then he came again and then I was lost forever.

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

The church trembled and the hail hammered the roof, but his words glided in the air, joyful and bright like the birds at the cliffs. They floated freely around one another without colliding and the...

Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone’s horizon sweeps someone else’s. We are only noticed...

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Two turtle doves will show theeWhere my cold ashes lieAnd sadly murmuring tell theeHow in tears I did die

Birds have wings; they’re free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Every new dayOur children’s joy is as fresh as roses,Even the birds chatter at dawn.

Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of mad round eyes, crimson breasts that beat against bars, wings that flapped against...

I remember a story I read once, a soldier, was it at Shiloh? He was talking to me but not with his whole attention. Gettysburg? a soldier so mad with shock that he started burying...

The man was staring directly at him now, a curious expression on his face, half smiling, half quizzical. Instantly Eager had a sense of certainty far deeper than anything he had experienced so far. “I...

Never leave the egg in you not laid. Don’t leave the laid eggs there not hatched. You deserve the best; you were created to use every gift in you!

She was suppose to be mine. I hers. We were suppose to be like the birds.

Sun-struck, stuck in mid tropic strut, it sometimes standsas if considering how to cool avian plastic,dive into the mown lagoon of lawn;how take flight on dayglow flap-doodle wings, no matterif it is ball-bald going nowhere...

With birds flying around, man’s desire for having wings rises to infinite!

Take this one to the bank: birds are hatched from eggs and are always egg-shaped. Maybe there’s no escaping the shape that molds you, no getting around how you got started even if you do...

Yes, I say. Three of these flying birds. I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight-toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind.

It’s worth remembering that the Netherlands and Germany both unnecessarily housed their birds in September last year at great expense, only to later let them out again.

…a new day was starting, the things of the garden were not concerned with our troubles. A blackbird ran across the rose-garden to the lawns in swift, short rushes, stopping now and again to stab...

San Diego County residents, especially those in the North County where most of the infected birds have been found, need to take personal protection measures.

Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn:It listens, listens. Taller trees beyondListen. The moon at the unruffled pondStares. And you sing, you sing.That star-enchanted song falls through the airFrom lawn to lawn down terraces...

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...

Newborn babies can’t do much on their own-They can’t eat or walk or talk on the phone-But every parent is sure their creation is without a doubt a tremendous sensation.

…a murder of crows gormandized until they were satiated.

We need to be aware that there’s a real risk for Europe when the birds migrate northwards this spring.

We have culled about 20,000 birds. Until now they are still looking.

It was my uncle who taught me about the birds and the bees. He sat me down one day and said, ‘Remember this, George, the birds fuck the bees.’ Then he told me he once...

‘Tragedy admires man. Comedy feels a bit sorry for him.’ We think we are kings or queens, masters of the universe or at least our own destiny. We forget that a foot may crush us,...

I saw two birds having dangerously kinky sex on the main road, while several cars ran above them just missing the sparrows’ toss and tumble fly away. The couple survived to try it again next...

That was the thing about Levantin: he loved the birds, but he really loved the places they brought him. When you spend your career in the confines of a gray suit, the pipits at dawn...

We ate the birds. We ate them. We wanted their songs to flow up through our throats and burst out of our mouths, and so we ate them. We wanted their feathers to bud from...

And I said, ‘A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could’ve had you?’ And he said, ‘Because when he sings … even the birds stop to listen.

The Commission has been informed by the European Union reference laboratory … that the virus isolated in wild birds in Croatia is indeed the H5N1 virus.

I have never known birds of different species to flock together. The very concept is unimaginable. Why, if that happened, we wouldn’t stand a chance! How could we possibly hope to fight them?

Here is the door of my mom’s house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house to a wooden pole, and some fat birds sitting together...

The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly.

Any day above ground is a good one. A woman’s beauty is her inherent ability to better a man in every way. My father, now in heaven, is the watcher of birds. And his eye...

We were suppose to be like the birds.