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


Seagulls... slim yachts of the element. ~Robinson Jeffers


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


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


The early bird gets the worm; but the second mouse gets the cheese. ~Author Unknown


"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"


A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb


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


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


Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?? ~Rose F. Kennedy


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


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


God gives every bird its food; but He does not throw it into its nest. ~J.G. Holland


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


My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather. ~Loire Hartwould


God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. ~Jacques Deval; Afin de vivre bel et bien


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


One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window; except that the birds might eat them. ~Martin H. Fischer