Best song & bird Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.”

“Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon; whispers of the winds... Lonely trees are not lonely!”

Light Song Company Tree Wind Moon Eternal Bird Shadow Lonely Clouds Lonely Trees

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I cannot sing the old songs Though well I know the tune, Familiar as a cradle-song With sleep-compelling croon; Yet though I'm filled with music, As choirs of summer birds, I cannot sing the old songs-- I do not know the words.”

Knows Wells Song Sleep Summer Bird Filled Familiar Tunes Compelling Cradle Choir Old Song

Author:Robert Jones Burdette

“The Best Things In Life Are Free Sunshine, songs of birds, the blue heavens, sunrise, the sea air, the field full of flowers, the wonders of nature, the magenta sunset, love, joy, peace of mind, the wonders of nature, the warm rain, the dew of the roses, the love of God, etc., are here for our enjoyment.”

Source: Inspiration & motivation

“We made it. Despite the fear and predictions of doom. We made it. Even though there were days when we were tired and there were days when we forgot who we were. We made it. And we must thank the stars for this. And the birds for their beautiful songs. And the strangers who were careful to smile. We made it.”

Inspirational Made Beautiful Song Stars Fear Bird Tired Careful Stranger Despite Made It Predictions Doom

Author:Ron Atchison

“Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.”

Song Sweet Bird Musical Woods Thee Noses Folly Melancholy Nightingales

Author:John Milton

“A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art.”

Kind Art Different Purpose Song Fall Heard Minutes Pure Bird Performances Practicals Realms Different Kinds Display Imitation Mockingbird Virtuoso

Author:Tom Robbins

“The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.”

Heart Song Sound Tree Wind Masters Bird Understood Rivers Scholar Wind In The Trees

Book:The Song of the Bird

Source: The Song of the Bird

“I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.”

Song Prayer Lord Offers Bird Meek

Author:Guru Nanak

“Animals of every kind live on the Other Side, .. you are not crazy if you feel the spirit of your cat rubbing against your legs, hear the sound of your dog's toenails clicking on the wood floor, or hear the familiar song your bird used to sing. Our pets do come back to visit us.”

Ifs Feels Kind Used Spirit Song Sound Sides Animal Crazy Dog Bird Cat Legs Woods Familiar Pet Toenails

Author:Sylvia Browne

“Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song? No wonder the bird has become the symbol for happiness. Before the farmer begins to plough the wet earth, often while snow is still on the ground, this hardy little minstrel is making himself very much at home in our orchards and gardens while waiting for a mate to arrive from the South.”

Firsts Littles Stills Home Earth Song Waiting Wonder Spring Bird Garden South Snow Welcome Symbols Farmers Mates Wet Hardy Orchard Bluebird Minstrels

Author:Neltje Blanchan

“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

“These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the 'good' and the 'bad,' to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil-all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called 'insecticides,' but 'biocides.'”

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.”

Way Song Listening Habit Bird Best Way Peculiar Gave Up

Book:Audubon and His Journals

Source: Audubon and His Journals

“Life was not intended to be simply a round of work, no matter how interesting and important that work may be. A moment’s pause to watch the glory of a sunrise or a sunset is soul-satisfying, while a bird's song will set the steps to music all day long.”

May Long Important Soul Matter Moments Song Interesting Steps Watches Glory Bird Rounds Sunset Satisfying Sunrise Pauses

Book:Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings

Source: Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings

“Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp - everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.”

Song House Fields Summer Bird Woods Eggs Nests Swamps Barns Summer Days Jubilee

Book:Charlotte’s Web and other classic animal stories: Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, Stuart Little

Source: Charlotte’s Web and other classic animal stories: Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, Stuart Little

“In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.”

World Art Dream Light Song Sleep Secret Bird Seasons Chosen

Book:Selected Verse

Source: Selected Verse

“The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.”

Beautiful Life Is Song Air Bird Intelligent Crowded

Book:Studies in animal life

Source: Studies in animal life

“The autumn comes, a maiden fair In slenderness and grace, With nodding rice-stems in her hair And lilies in her face. In flowers of grasses she is clad; And as she moves along, Birds greet her with their cooing glad Like bracelets' tinkling song.”

Faces Moving Song Grace Flower Hair Bird Fairs Glad Grass Autumn Stem Rice Lilies Maidens Nodding Bracelet

Book:Kalidasa translations of Shakuntala, and other works

Source: Kalidasa translations of Shakuntala, and other works

“The perfume of the flowers and of the bay tree are wafted on high, like incense. The birds sing sweet songs of praise to their Creator. In the tops of the trees, the soughing of the wind is like the hushed prayers of the multitude in some vast cathedral. Here the heart of man becomes impressionable.”

Men Heart Song Prayer Tree Sweet Wind Flower Bird Praise Creator Multitudes Perfume Cathedrals Incense Impressionable

Book:Documents on the Life and Art of William Wendt, 1865-1946, California's Painter Laureate of the Paysage Moralisé

Source: Documents on the Life and Art of William Wendt, 1865-1946, California's Painter Laureate of the Paysage Moralisé

“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

“There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for some definite, fore-ordered end. The flowers blossom in obedience to the same law that marks the course of constellations, and the song of a bird is the echo of a universal symphony. Nature is one, and to me the greatest delight of observation and study is to discover new unities in this all-embracing and eternal harmony.”

“A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.”

Moving Song Taken Doubt Bird Flight No Doubt Birds In Flight

Author:Pete Seeger

“All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.”

Trying Song Effects Lovers Standards Bird Seasons Saint Tone Organs Repetition Sentimental Crow Mississippi Habitual Comical Quoting Tennyson

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“The fall of waters and the song of birds, And hills that echo to the distant berds, Are luxuries excelling all the glare The world can boast, and her chief favorites share.”

World Song Fall Water Share Bird Luxury Chiefs Hills Retirement Echoes Boast Glare

Author:William Cowper

“Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.”

Men Giving Song Born Speech Bird Faculty

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.”

Heart Has Beens Soul Song Passion Music Virtue Bird Wings Affection Flight

Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

“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

“Only to the rude ear of one who is quite indifferent does the song of a bird seem always the same.”

Doe Seems Song Bird Ears Indifferent Rude

Book:Letters from prison

Source: Letters from prison

“The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.”

Children Doe Mother Song Bird Justify Cages Enforcement Compelled Mother Love Caged Caged Birds

Book:The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings

Source: The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings

“Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky; The May-thorn greening in the nook; The minnows sporting in the brook; The bleat of flocks; the breath of flowers; The song of birds amid the bowers; The crystal of the azure seas; The music of the southern breeze; And, over all, the blessed sun, Telling of halcyon days begun.”

May Eye Song Sun Sea Sky Mines Flower Summer Bird Breaths Blessed Southern Breeze Simplest Crystals Flocks Brooks Azure Greening Minnows Halcyon Days

Book:The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir

Source: The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir

“How sweet the harmonies of the afternoon! The Blackbird sings along the sunny breeze His ancient song of leaves, and summer boon; Rich breath of hayfields streams thro' whispering trees; And birds of morning trim their bustling wings, And listen fondly--while the Blackbird sings.”

Song Morning Rich Tree Sweet Summer Bird Harmony Breaths Wings Ancient Streams Afternoon Breeze Sunny Whispering Boon Blackbirds

Book:Days and Hours

Source: Days and Hours

“Witches try to 'connect' with the world around them. Witchcraft, they say, is about the tactile, intuitive understanding of the turn of the seasons, the song of the birds; it is the awareness of all things as holy.”

World Trying Song Turns Understanding Nature Awareness Holy Bird All Things Seasons Oneness Holiness Witch Intuitive Witchcraft Tactile

Author:Tanya Luhrmann

“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

“I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.”

Beautiful Song Asks Nature Morning Sun Bird Rising Life And Love Misty Misty Mornings

Author:Pete Hamill

“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.”

Made Certain Song House Strong Rooms Beauty Grace Tree Please Taste Standards Bird Rivers Weak Relation Dresses Prose Verses Discourse Good Taste

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“Every single song has its own individual character and you can't treat each song the same way, because it wants to be treated differently and there are songs that are like scared birds that you have to sneak up on over the course of months in the woods.”

Way Want Character Song Courses Individual Months Bird Treats Scared Woods Treated Sneak

Author:Tom Waits

“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 are daydreaming about the future because you have not tasted the present. Start tasting the present. Find out a few moments where you are simply delighting. Looking at the trees, just be the look. Listening to the birds, just be a listening ear. Let them reach to your deepest core. Let their song spread all over your being.”

Looks Moments Song Tree Listening Future Bird Ears Spread Core Over You Where You Are Daydreaming Tasting Listening Ear

Author:Rajneesh

“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

“I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends.”

Song Sound Tree Wind Bird Shuffle Woodland Wind In The Trees

Author:Jason Mraz

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