The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.
The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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.
Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection.
Big Bird is based on what I learned as a child.
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.