William Bartram Quotes

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

I am a Hawk!

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.

I would love to be more specific, but really, any type of bird is the funniest animal. They have to move awkwardly when walking. They have beady eyes; they are very suspicious. They can't do anything right. They have no hands, which is inherently funny.

You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.

The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple.

Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural world's most elegant phenomena.

Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?

The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive.

If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

Eagles rarely fail to catch their prey. They usually kill it quickly by breaking its neck with their powerful claws.

I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.

Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight

A falcon is the perfect hunter.

Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost.

I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.

The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a sluggard, though its wings are long and ample.

The varying modes of flight exhibited by our diurnal birds of prey have always been to me a subject of great interest, especially as by means of them I have found myself enabled to distinguish one species from another, to the farthest extent of my power of vision.

I like deer. They're kinda cool.

I always thought of deer as solitary animals that weren't very interesting. But my goodness, that was very wrong. The big eye-opener for me was that they're social. They have family groups.

The Eagle, he was lord above