Quotes About Birds

A tribute to our fine feathered friends

Kiki Wellington
I quote, therefore I am.

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They’re the staple of a beautiful spring or summer day. They sing to wake us up and command our attention when they follow us overhead. These quotes are about birds, our beautiful feathered friends.

1. “Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.”
-Doug Coupland

2. “It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”
-Aesop

3. “The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”
-J.M. Barrie

4. “God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.”
-Jacques Deval

5. “I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.”
-Joseph Addison

6. “Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we’ll soon be in trouble.”
-Roger Tory Peterson

7. “One swallow does not make a summer.”
-Aristotle

8. “The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a…

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