Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.
There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car.
We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.
Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.
I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.
People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.
We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.
If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.