Best Bird Song Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Lord of Death

“Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.”

States Science Song United Silence Beauty Morning United States Return Spring Bird Areas Filled Silent Environmental Pollution Early Morning Silent Spring Early Bird Bird Song

Author:Rachel Carson

“I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.”

Thinking World Book Song Born Bird Interpretation Surveys Great Book Bird Song

Author:Charles Hartshorne

“To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves.”

Song Nature Bird Rise Above Descent Orchids Bogs Bird Song

Book:Islands, the universe, home

Source: Islands, the universe, home

“People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.”

People Heart Song Audience Bird Ears Dancing Musical Lions Listening To Music Cavemen Bird Song

Author:Marsha Norman

“A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I don’t think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while we’re doing it, I think we’re meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, our jokes, and the birds’ song and the frosty sunrise.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving States Seems Happens Song Enjoy Sleep Lord Our Lives Jokes Bird Mere Worried Great Men Sunrise Our Lord Live For Others Bird Song

Author:C. S. Lewis

“You only need to walk in mindfulness, making peaceful, happy steps on our planet. Breathe deeply, and enjoy your breathing. Be aware that the sky is blue and the birds' songs are beautiful. Enjoy being alive and you will help the living Christ and the living Buddha continue for a long, long time.”

Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition

“Right now the day length is exactly the same as in spring when birds key into it and begin singing. The birds are a little confused by it all and the singing isn't very intense. It only lasts a week or so each fall, but it's still cool to hear spring bird songs at this time of the year.”

Years Littles Stills Lasts Song Fall Week Keys Right Now Spring Singing Bird Intense Confused Length Bird Song

Author:Craig Thompson

“Over the whole earth- this infinitely small globe that possesses all we know of sunshine and bird song- an unfamiliar blight is creeping: man- man, who has become at last a planetary disease and who would, if his technology yet permitted, pass this infection to another star.”

Ifs Knows Men Whole Earth Lasts Song Stars Technology Disease Bird Sunshine Globes Unfamiliar Infection Blight Bird Song

Author:Loren Eiseley

“I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.”

Giving Values Song Animal Environment Bird Garden Fruit Cherries Blackbirds Bird Watching Bird Song

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.”

Night Song Stars Morning Sea Fit Bird Blue Green Shining Delight Forests Toys Palaces Bird Song Brooches

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”

“Cobbled streets and no shops open past six o'clock, a communal life that seemed to revolve around church, and where you could often hear bird song and nothing else: Gaia felt as though she had fallen through a portal into a land lost in time.”

Past Song Lost Felt Church Streets Land Six Bird Clock Fallen Shops Portal Gaia Bird Song

Book:The Casual Vacancy

Source: The Casual Vacancy

“The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love.”

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives - and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!”

Source: The Writings of John Burroughs: Birds and poets, with other papers

“As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one gazes at the shining colors of flowers, doth one become dumbstruck before the Kingdom of the Creator.”

Song Creation Color Flower Bird Shining Creator Kingdoms Insects Summertime Cuckoos Bird Song

Author:Carl Linnaeus

“Winter has caused damage everywhere: meadow and forest are all grey, where before you heard many sounds. If I could see the girls play ball on the street, then bird song would come back. If only I could sleep through the winter! When I am awake I feel only hatred that his power is so far and wide. God knows, he even fights with May; I picked flowers where there is now snow.”

Ifs Knows Feels May Play Song Girl Fighting Sound Sleep Heard Streets Flower Bird Hatred Balls Winter Wide Snow Forests Awake Damage If I Could Grey God Knows Meadows Bird Song

Author:Walther von der Vogelweide

“A delicate fabric of bird song Floats in the air, The smell of wet wild earth Is everywhere. Oh I must pass nothing by Without loving it much, The raindrop try with my lips, The grass with my touch; For how can I be sure I shall see again The world on the first of May Shining after the rain?”

World Trying Firsts May Earth Song Air Spring Bird Rain Shining Lips Smell Grass Delicate Wet Fabric Floats Raindrops After The Rain Bird Song

Book:Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.”

“Man has gone to the moon but he does not yet know how to make a flame tree or a bird song. Let us keep our dear countries free from irreversible mistakes which would lead us in the future to long for those same birds and trees.”

Knows Men Long Doe Country Song Mistake Know How Gone Tree Moon Bird Dear Flames Irreversible Bird Song

Author:Felix Houphouet-Boigny

“Girl with the burning golden eyes, And red-bird song, and snowy throat: I bring you gold and silver moons, And diamond stars, and mists that float. I bring you moons and snowy clouds, I bring you prarie skies to-night To feebly praise your golden eyes And red-bird song, and throat so white. ~Vachel Lindsay "To Gloriana" God wrote His loveliest poem on the day He made the first silver poplar tree, And set it high upon a pale-gold hill For all the new enchanted earth to see.”

“And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never really noticed it before. Full of birdsong and summer perfumes, full of strange glimpses and intimations just out of the corner of my eye, of longings and sadness and undefined hopes.It has a name, this sweet disturbance. Its name is Lamorna.”

Eye Song Names Air Sadness Changed Strange Sweet Summer Bird Longing Corners Evening Glimpse Perfume Disturbance Things Have Changed Birdsong Undefined Bird Song

Author:Michael Frayn