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I value my garden more for being full of
blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for
their songs. ~Joseph Addison, The Spectator, 1712
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I
was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more
distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any
epaulet I could have worn. ~Henry David Thoreau
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their
curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame
of art. ~Izaak Walton
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial
dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a
creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description. ~W.H.
Hudson, Green Mansions
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which
is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
~Eric Berne
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its
nest. ~J.G. Holland
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Seagulls... slim yachts of the element. ~Robinson Jeffers
Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except
that the birds might eat them. ~Martin H. Fischer
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
~Author Unknown
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and
invented cages. ~Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien
Use the talents you possess - for the woods would be a very silent
place if no birds sang except for the best. ~Henry Van Dyke
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Eagle"
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the
way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was
before. ~Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays
A Robin Redbreast in a cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
~William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather. ~Loire Hartwould
"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had
heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and
nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it." ~Henry David
Thoreau, 28 November 1858 journal entry
When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky
and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and
the hue of the other on his breast. ~John Burroughs
A wonderful bird is the pelican
His bill will hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week,
But I'm damned if I see how the helican.
~Dixon Lanier Merritt
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands
truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are
shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing
awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to
delight in whatever remains to them? ~Rose F. Kennedy
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it
has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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Quotations about Birds