Bird Quotes

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

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.

Even when a bird walks, one feels it has wings.

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.

I have a bird of paradise Upon a springing cypress tree She sits for hours while daylight dims And not a song by day sings she. Her back is of celestial blue, Her head is purple; flaming dye Upon her wings, of golden hue Like dawn’s reflection in the sky. Only when the earth is […]

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance

And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the […]