John Muir

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

American Environmentalist

Kevin Morby

My hair - it's baby thin and feathery and drives me crazy no matter what I do with it. It's weird because you see people with thicker hair that just kind of stays put, but if I'm in any sort of weather, I look like Bill Murray in 'Kingpin' when it starts to all come unleashed.

American Musician

Roisin Murphy

I always try to lace my work with just a teensy-weensy bit of humour. It's rather like putting a sprig of feathery stuff in a flower arrangement: I believe humour is a great balancer.

Irish Musician

John James Audubon

Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the breeding places of the feathery tribes of our country.

American Scientist

Yotam Ottolenghi

My all-time favourite classic use of ricotta is in gnudi: fluffy, cheesy dumplings of almost ethereal, feathery lightness.

Israeli Chef

Use 'feathery' to express something has a light, fluffy texture, similar to actual feathers.

Physical Texture

Describe touches that are extremely soft and gentle, often to convey tenderness or delicacy.

Gentle Touch

Use it to describe something that looks fluffy or wispy, not necessarily made of feathers.

Visual Description

Describes clothing or decoration, giving a sense of fantasy or ethereal beauty.

Aesthetic Immersion

Expresses a sense of light gracefulness in someone's movements or in the drape of fabric.

Lightness in Motion

Conveys a soft, subtle form of elegance, implying sophistication without boldness.

Subtle Elegance

 So this is the stand that I use to hold them. I like to place it right over the microphone so that I can get a recording of the buzzing that you hear. That sound is generated by how fast they're beating their wings. This is a male. The males have very bushy antennae, and they look kind of feathery.

The real reason why...

 Some sea cucumbers have feathery tentacles flowing from their mouths, some are puffed like bloated balloons, and others simply look like Headless Chicken Monsters— the actual name given to a rare deep-sea species. But they are generally characterized by their long, cylindrical shape.

This sea creature...

 we would have to follow him at all times, maybe with a feathery quill and an inkwell, and record it, but now think about what it looks like today. You know that somewhere, probably in a telecommunications carrier's database, there is a spreadsheet or at least a database entry

Kenneth Cukier: Big data...

 So if it loses any limb, it can just completely regenerate. It's amazing. And, I mean, look at it -- it's got a face with a permanent smile. It's framed by feathery gills. It's just ... how could you not love that? This particular type of axolotl, a very close relative,

What a nun can teach a...

 It tastes like pillows of sparkles or old shoe and dung. No more of sounding good or bad. You sound like lilting baby laughter or ogres marching to war. Dear God, you do not look good or bad. You look like a feathery angel or a morose faun.

The case against "good"...

 most geckos like insects so why is this gecko giving a free pass to these feathery tail flatted bugs maybe what the buds produced tastes better than the bugs themselves the flooded bugs suck

Can You Spot the Gecko?...

 But soon, the reins slackened in his hands. Unaccustomed to the feathery weight of a mortal, the radiant horses climbed higher and higher. The chariot whirled past constellations,

The tragic myth of the...

 before re-entering the ocean. Underwater, fish breathe with gills, which are feathery organs packed with blood vessels that absorb dissolved oxygen from the water.

The fish that walk on...

 gecko giving a free pass to these feathery tail flatted bugs maybe what the buds produce tastes better than the bugs themselves the flooded bugs suck

Meet the Ninja Gecko PIPE...

 sacks with holes at the end a sea cucumber spreads a net of feathery tentacles each in turn transfers trapped food particles to a central love

Feathery