"The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds."

Birds, Country

43

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds."

Exlpore more Birds quotes

"Consider the birds. Be wise as serpents."

Hilda Doolittle, American Poet

Birds,

"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."

Henry Van Dyke, American Poet

Birds,

"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."

Rebecca West, Irish Author

Birds, Cats

"I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh."

Erich Maria Remarque, German Writer

Birds, Darkness, Faces

"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds."

Gore Vidal, American Novelist

Birds, Man, Trees

"Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod."

Robert T. Bakker, American Scientist

Birds,

"A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices."

William Lyon Phelps, American Educator

Birds, Books, Past

"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Birds, Children, Taste

"Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best."

Bernard Meltzer, American Lawyer

Birds, Joy, Will, World

"Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad."

Larry David, American Actor

Birds,

Explore more quotes by Gilbert White

"I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology."

Want

"I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand."

Flies

"Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops."

People

"Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields."

Gardening

"It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined."

Nature

"The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history."

History

"Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish."

Numbers

"Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams."

Play

"You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter."

Country

"We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors."

Day