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“God was something I did not understand the way kids who went to church did. They said God was a man in the sky with white hair and a beard like Santa. This seemed strange to me. When I thought of God, I imagined only mist over the pond, a sliver of moon in a dark sky, scatterings of stars, birdsong.”

Men Way Said Kids Stars Church Dark White Sky Strange Hair Moon Bird They Said Santa Mist Beard Ponds Birdsong White Hair Dark Sky

Author:Melissa Coleman

“Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.”

World Stills Asks Silence Tree Quiet Machines Clouds Storm Snail Birdsong

Book:This Day: New and Collected Sabbath Poems 1979 - 2012

Source: This Day: New and Collected Sabbath Poems 1979 - 2012

“Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.”

Firsts Fall Sound Awareness Wind Dawn Subtle Insects Raindrops Humming Birdsong Leaves In The Wind

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks

“Did you not look upon the world this morning and imagine it as the boy might see it? And did you not recognize the mist and the dew and the birdsong as elements not of a place or a time but of a spirit? And did you not envy the boy his spirit? For you know there can be no power over him who freely gives what another would take. Such a one has the capacity to love. Freely, naively, to say I do.”

Knows World Giving Looks Might Spirit Boys Morning Imagine Elements Bird Capacity Envy Look Up Mist Dew Capacity To Love Birdsong

Book:At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel

Source: At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel

“A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world's.”

World Feels Heart Doe Whole Moments Sky Bird Whole World Birdsong

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Nowadays, people are so jeezled up. If they took some chamomile tea and spent more time rocking on the porch in the evening listening to the liquid song of the hermit thrush, they might enjoy life more.”

People Ifs Might Song Enjoy Listening Evening Tea More Time Enjoy Life True Happiness Liquid Beautiful Life Porch Hermits Illustrators Birdsong Thrush

Author:Tasha Tudor

“I woke early like a condemned man to the naivety of birdsong.”

Men Birdsong Naivety

Author:Nick Drake

“The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: do not the birds set us the example?”

Should Hours Morning Example Bird Praise Dedicated Early Morning Praise God Birdsong Morning Prayer

Book:The Joy in Praising God

Source: The Joy in Praising God

“The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.”

Sound Bird Baseball Cracks Bats Gloves Chatter Birdsong

Author:W. P. Kinsella

“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

“...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not strangers: our hands moved towards each other to embrace. I never heard his voice, for we did not speak; it is a shame, I should so like the memory of it. Loneliness, like fever, thrives on night, but there with him light broke, breaking in the trees like birdsong, and when sunrise came, he loosened his fingers from mine, and walked away, that misty boy, my friend.”

Source: Some postwar American writers

“I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a porch from which a single road leads only homeward.”

Hard Dream Cutting Land Wind Quiet Bird Wander Hills Streams Porch Birdsong

Author:Nancy E. Turner

“Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.”

Bird Sparrows Birdsong

Author:Catullus

“Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece of work. Sebastian Faulkes is a genius. So you feel that responsibility when you're portraying that character that he's imagined and millions of readers have pictured.”

Feels Book Character Hands Responsibility Millions Pieces Reader Genius Bird Extraordinary Reputation Portraying Birdsong Prestigious

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming, smoky streets of Ankh-Morpork, which was always at its best in the spring, when the gummy sheen on the turbid waters of the Ankh River had a special iridescence and the eaves were full of birdsong, or at least birds coughing rhythmically”

Found Water Streets Special Spring Bird Rivers Longing Desperate Birdsong Coughing Ankh Gummies

Book:The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)

Source: The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)

“It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one could almost pretend to be in nature. A forest. A meadow. Crickets and birdsong. But the corpse of civilization is as restless as the creatures that now roam the graveyards.”

Ifs Cities Civilization Creatures Bird Silent Forests Cricket Lit Restless Corpses Tombs Meadows Graveyard Eerie Birdsong

Book:The New Hunger (The Warm Bodies Series): The Prequel to Warm Bodies

Source: The New Hunger (The Warm Bodies Series): The Prequel to Warm Bodies

“Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.”

Song Music Is Bird Claims Prohibition Birdsong

Author:Al-Ghazali

“Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in grasses and moon daisies, Stella stood and listened, swaying a little as the flowers and trees were swaying, her spirit voice singing loudly, though her lips were still, and every pulse in her body beating its hammer strokes in time to the song.”

Source: Gentian Hill

“My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado's aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around, and myself, dazed and limping.”

Ifs Color Bird Calm Weather Internals Sunshine Aftermath Tornadoes Unforeseen Wreckage Birdsong Dazed Limping Capitulation

Author:Kate Christensen

“A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or the northern steppes, whipped up by the wind, carried by storms, swirling through the sky, travelling, crossing whole countries without knowing quite how, and ending up in the crook of my ear.”

Country Whole Names Knowing Sky Wind Bird Ears Storm Rings Desert Sand Grain Crossings Exotic Crooks Grains Of Sand Birdsong

Author:Sijie Dai

“There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much of life were left behind, together with the bitterness of not getting what one wanted. One's values, too, were altered. Gifts that once one took for granted, sunshine and birdsong, freedom from pain, sleep and one's daily bread, seemed now so extraordinarily precious.”

“People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud.”

People Ifs Records Six Bird Constant Noise Clock Loud Invasion Woodland Birdsong

Book:Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

“All Quiet on the Western Front.”

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