There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
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.
Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.
All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.