Quotes About Bird Watching

#1. Jesus, Peabody." Amazed, Eve slid out into traffic. "You checked out her ass?" "I check out everyone's ass. It's a hobby." "Get a new one. Like . . . bird-watching or something." "Bird-watching? In New York?

J.D. Robb

#2. Aw, I'm like a proud mother bird watching my daughter fly from the nest. Fly, little bird, fly. Oh no! Don't fall. No, that's the ground. Addie, watch out for the ground. Man, tough luck. You'd better come back home.

Kasie West

#3. I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

Roger Tory Peterson

#4. I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked.

Matt Ridley

#5. I spent money on a decent bike, a bit of kit for paddle boarding and I like bird watching so I bought a decent pair of binoculars but as far as bottles of Cristal champagne and Gucci loafers? No, blingy and showy stuff isn't me.

Bill Bailey

#6. Orwell wrote easily and well about small humane pursuits, such as bird watching, gardening and cooking, and did not despise popular pleasures like pubs and vulgar seaside resorts. In many ways, his investigations into ordinary life and activity prefigure what we now call 'cultural studies.

Christopher Hitchens

#7. We do a lot of bird-watching up in the country, but we almost never have a chance to people-watch. There simply aren't enough human beings up here: there is nowhere you can park yourself with a cup of coffee and observe the species on parade.

Susan Orlean

#8. Watch the sunset without speaking, just like a bird watching the sunset in complete silence!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. Was he hitting some type of werewolf midlife crisis? First, he'd left Wolf Town, and now he was envisioning a mate. What next? Bird watching? Board games? Retirement homes?

Rose Wynters

#10. The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

Marston Bates

#11. Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.

Anne Lamott

#12. With me the process is much more like bird-watching than like either talking or building. I see pictures. Some of the pictures have a common flavour, almost a common smell, which groups them together. Keep quiet and watch and they will begin joining themselves up.(quoting C.S. Lewis)

E.J. Kirk

#13. I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

Nikki Giovanni

#14. One of the great things about stargazing is that it's immediately at hand for so many people. You know, you could get into scuba diving or bird watching, but the stars are always up there.

Timothy Ferriss

#15. There it is - a flash of relief crosses his expression. Searching for emotion in Sherlock's face is like bird watching. Ah, yes, the rare relief-bird.

Eva Morgan

#16. Unless you want a horrible surprise, never go bird watching with an open mouth.

Kent Allan Rees

#17. I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had a passion for bird-watching, and when the snow or the rain kept me indoors, I read his bird books and learned about evolution.

James D. Watson

#18. So many hilarious scenes and seductions!

Dennis McKay

#19. As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish ... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.

Andreas Feininger

#20. He waited for chaotic games to end, for shouts to subside. His favorite moments were when he was alone, or felt alone. Lying in bed in the morning, watching sunlight flickering like a restless bird on the wall.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#21. I enjoy watching sitcoms where the team behind it have successfully created a whole alternate reality that you can enter into for half an hour every week.

Simon Bird

#22. Rena noticed me watching it pass. 'You think they don't got problem?' Rena said. 'Everybody got problem. You got me, they got insurance, house payment, Preparation H.' She smiled, baring the part between her two upper teeth. 'We are the free birds. They want to be us.

Janet Fitch

#23. We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.

David Nabarro

#24. I'm trying to let him know what I'm about to do.
I'm hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can't.

Matthew Quick

#25. When a group of people sing together, we make up a chorus. When birds do, it's more like a whole symphony orchestra.

Laura Erickson

#26. But I also made it clear to (Vladimir Putin) that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.

George W. Bush

#27. You like? she asked Slade. He gave her a head nod and she vanished behind the curtain.
That's my sister, he said, pointing at the closed curtain.
I shrugged. I'm glad you guys are so close.

Holly Hood

#28. When Steven passed away and we moved to stay with Mama, there were white bird feathers scattered around the front yard. When Emma asked about them, Mama said they were small signs from the angels, letting us know they were always close by, watching over us.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#29. The internet lied to me?

Holly Smale

#30. Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing.

Augustus William Hare

#31. Both money and health contribute to happiness mostly in the negative; the lack of them brings much more unhappiness than possessing them brings happiness.
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Gretchen Rubin

#32. Sundown had bloodied the horizon over the uneven rooftops of South Boston. Birds were perched on every roof and seemed to be watching the girl walking slowly below. - Cradle and All

James Patterson

#33. See how special you are? I serve you coffee in the parlor.

Anthony Quinn

#34. I know what it is the way a child knows flying from watching a bird.

Pierce Brown

#35. Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, "You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.

John Cage

#36. All vampires are brothers in the brotherhood of night!

Stewart Stafford

#37. His favorite moments were when he was alone, or felt alone. Lying in bed in the morning, watching sunlight flickering like a restless bird on the wall. He

Jhumpa Lahiri

#38. And like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being honest would bring

John Fowles