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.

I love the rabbits and the squirrels and the birds.

At one point, I had close to 100 birds.

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

Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.

Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

We have a fantastic array of birds of prey here in the U.K.

The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.

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

Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar.

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.

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

When I learned about this tragedy that's happening in Midway - you know, these birds whose stomachs are filled with handfuls of our waste - I just felt drawn there magnetically.

Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together.

I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.

There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.

Rajnath and Mulayam Singh are birds of the same feather.

I love to watch birds and wildlife.

Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.