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A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

Bast crouched down and began making weird chittering noises. Uh-oh. She was imitating birds. I'd seen enough cats do this when they were stalking. Suddenly my own obituary flashed in my head: Carter Kane, 14, tragically died in Paris wen he was eaten by his sister's cat, Muffin.

Basked in the sun,listened to birds,licked off raindrops,and only in flightthe leaf saw the treeand graspedwhat it had been.

Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on.

Beautiful mind, tortured soul. I do have to figure out why I am attracted to these broken birds.

Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging — but they weren't sweet.

Because I had my family, I felt like I could be a bird and fly and experience and do. Because I had roots somewhere, I knew that they would love me no matter what, and I could always go back home and they were going to love me.

Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the chesty preening of redbirds and bluebirds, the blackbird with the red-tipped wings like startling epaulets.

Because life goes on, L. The birds do their thing, and the bees do theirs. Seeds get scattered, and everything grows back.

Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me.

Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it.

Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds.

Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a black hood over our heads. It's like coming upon a tree of singing birds while wearing earplugs.

Be not like the bird that sees the seed, but not the trap.

Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!

Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that something went wrong.

Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.

Bird cage is nice only when it is empty!

Bird Poop in the mouth is always a surprise.

Birds are an ecological litmus paper.

Birds, birds, birds, I'm a Pet Shop Boy

Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

Birds I am fine with - spiders are an entirely different matter.

Bird's mind and fingers work with incredible speed. He can imply four chord changes in a melodic pattern where another musician would have trouble inserting two.

Birds never sing in caves.

Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together.

Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!

Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

Birds and the people who love freedom have something common: They must fly freely to feel that they are alive!

Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas.

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.

Birds of a feather really do flock together.

Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

Birds fly and fish swim and I do this.

Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?

Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much.

Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World vultures, but biologists have come to realize that the former are related to storks, the latter to hawks, and that their resemblances result from their common lifestyle.

Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love.