Quotes on birds
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.
Berne, Eric
Seagulls... slim yachts of the element.
Jeffers, Robinson
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Addison, Joseph
Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Fischer, Martin H.
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.
Thoreau, Henry David
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.
Hudson, W.H.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Kennedy, Rose F.
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.
Burroughs, John
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
Deval, Jacques
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.
Lynd, Robert S.