Kurt Braunohler Quotes

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.

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.

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

First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.

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?

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

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

I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.

I was at that time like a fledgling swallow living high up in a niche in the eaves, who from time to time peeps out over the top of its nest with its little bright eyes.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

I wish we had all been born birds instead.

Flight without feathers is not easy.

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

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

The gay bunting erects his white crest, and gives utterance to the joy he feels in the presence of his brooding mate; the willow grouse on the rock crows his challenge aloud; each floweret, chilled by the night air, expands its pure petals; the gentle breeze shakes from the blades of grass the heavy dewdrops.

Love must have wings to fly away from love, and to fly back again.

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.

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.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

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

Every bird dwells with its own kind.

I am a Hawk!

The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

I'm like the only Kiwi that can fly, I'm the one with the biggest wing.