Bird Watching Quotes:

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

- Nikki Giovanni

topic: Bird, Bird Watching

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

- Roger Tory Peterson

topic: Bridges, Bird, Environmental, Bird Watching, Binoculars

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

- Jacques Deval

source: "A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations" by Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell, (p. 22), 1992.

topic: Animal, Men, Bird, Kindness To Animals, Migratory Birds

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

- Rose Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Nature, Inspirational Adversity, Overcoming Hardship

Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Writing, Creativity, Mean, Bird Watching, Creative Expression

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

- J. G. Holland

topic: Success, God, Work, Work Effort, Bird Watching

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Song, Garden, Animal, Blackbirds, Bird Watching

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.

- Robert Wilson Lynd

topic: Life, Animal, Men, Inspirational Animal, Bird Watching

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

- Rabindranath Tagore

source: Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.585, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

topic: Encouraging, Faith, Dark, Darkness To Light, Spiritual Faith

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

- Rose Kennedy

topic: Adversity, Bird, Singing, Joy Of Living, Overcoming Hardship

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Nature, Garden, Animal, Bird Watching, Simplifying Life

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

- Izaak Walton

topic: Art, Air, Nimble, Bird Watching, Laws Of Nature

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.

- Eric Berne

source: ERIC BERNE, M.D. (1964). “GAMES PEOPLE PLAY”

topic: Nature, Boys, Equality, Birds Wings, Bird Watching

We do a lot of bird-watching up in the country, but we almost never have a chance to people-watch. There simply aren't enough human beings up here: there is nowhere you can park yourself with a cup of coffee and observe the species on parade.

- Susan Orlean

topic: Country, Coffee, People, Bird Watching

The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

- Marston Bates

source: Marston Bates (2014). “The Nature of Natural History”, p.265, Princeton University Press

topic: Photography, Nature, Science, Bird Watching, Natural History

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

- Larry Bird

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Success, Basketball, Motivation Goal Setting, Life Goal

Little things like making clothes, baking bread, cooking, even useless things like bird-watching, sketching flowers, playing guitar in the home - that sort of time is gone. And the time we have? We're so exhausted, we want to let ourselves get sucked in to the escape world of TV. I'm speaking from experience; I'm not above all this.

- Tom Hodgkinson

source: "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

topic: Flower, Home, Guitar, Bird Watching, Baking Bread

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

- David Letterman

topic: Change, Fun, Fall, Bird Watching, Fall Autumn

When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power already. This is why government benefits usually go to people who don't need benefits from government. Government may make some environmental improvements, but these will be improvements for rich bird-watchers. And no one in government will remember that when poor people go bird-watching they do it at Kentucky Fried Chicken.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Fashion, Government, Kentucky, Money And Power, Bird Watching

I spent money on a decent bike, a bit of kit for paddle boarding and I like bird watching so I bought a decent pair of binoculars but as far as bottles of Cristal champagne and Gucci loafers? No, blingy and showy stuff isn't me.

- Bill Bailey

source: Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

topic: Bird, Bottles, Stuff, Showy, Loafers

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

- Larry Bird

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Sports, Give It All You Got, Inspirational Hard Work