Bird's Eye View Quotes

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

It's like being a bird, maybe, the perspective of flying over the Earth.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon.

In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done.

There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.

What I learned in school, what I learned in the educational part of my life. Trying to acquire a kind of a bird's eye view. You drive hard and see everything. And that's called education because now you can see everything.

Earth has few secrets from the birds.

I haven't been able to write a song about flying. It just sounds cheesy. But for me, there's nothing like being up there.

The flight experience itself is incredible. It's addictive. It's transcendent. It is a view of the grand plan of all things that is simply unforgettable.

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: 'That's where I wanted to go today!

Things always look different from higher up.

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

But at least he can still see the lights below us. Although maybe for him it doesn't matter.

Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see .

You know how, when you fly from coast to coast on a really clear day, looking down from many miles up, you can see the little baseball diamonds everywhere? And every time I see a baseball diamond my heart goes out to it. And I think somewhere down there- I don't see any houses, I can hardly see any roads- but I know that people down there are playing the game we all love.

This is what birds see. Only they're free and safe. The very opposite of me.

Don't look down, it's an impossible view; Fly like an eagle whatever you do.

I've got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.

I don't see things from a worm's perspective but a bird's perspective. I smile at problems.

You have full-field view when you're watching the film. Eye in the sky, it's a lot easier to look at it that way than when you're back behind center.