Birds Quotes

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
Jacques Deval

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms
Anne Stevenson

The birds will soon settle that question.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

I know why the caged bird sings.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
William Henry Hudson

There are no birds in last year's nest

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

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

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Birds of a feather will gather together.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

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

A forest bird never wants a cage.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

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

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
Roger Tory Peterson

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

I was honestly very nervous of Constance Wheatcroft. And I wasn't the only one. Her entire family was afraid of her. Dogs were afraid of her. Bindweed in the hedge would wither as she passed; birds would forget their nesting instincts and fly back to north Africa at the sound of her hideous cries.







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