James Wolk Quotes

The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.

Every bird will follow it's specie.

The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?

The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as though the creatures were attached by sensitive wires to his nerves.

There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

Birds fascinated her. How did they do that, seeming to fly with one mind, each of them able to anticipate what the others would do?

Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'.

Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight.

I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.

Birds which are the same color as the foliage in which they nest are less likely to be disturbed by other birds who want to drop in and chat, and therefore last longer.

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.

He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries.

Fly and you will catch the swallow.

It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

I'm really not afraid of spooky things. When I have to look really frightened, I concentrate on scary things like losing my kittens or something like that.

The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night.

Salander's fingers emerged like something dead from beneath the earth. Had there been any human watching, he would probably have reacted like the fox. He was gone like a shot.

Chickens have an uncanny sense of direction.

I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.

At a very early stage of the novel's development I get this urge to collect bits of straw and fluff, and to eat pebbles. Nobody will ever discover how clearly a bird visualizes, or if it visualizes at all, the future nest and the eggs in it.

Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.