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bird environmental paper
Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead inevitably to environmental awareness and can signal impending changes. Roger Tory Peterson
bird facts tone
Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone. Lydia M. Child
bird gone grievance
She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone. Gillian Flynn
bird pet genius
Most birds are geniuses. We had one that became a pet; he learned to talk, use tools and solve problems. Jean Craighead George
bird coal nervous
...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine. Jim Butcher
bird break-out males
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird. Honore de Balzac
bird sometimes time-passing
Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly. Ivan Turgenev
bird horizon maps
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. Gregory Maguire
bird silence shadow
A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell J. R. R. Tolkien