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Quotes About Birds

Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination. And this one is Teddy's.
~ Kate Atkinson
As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.
~ Kate Atkinson
Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.
~ Plato
Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here?
~ Rumi
The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: do not the birds set us the example?
~ Charles Spurgeon
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.
~ John Milton
I woke up this morning, Smiled at the rising sun, Three little birds, Sat on my doorstep, Singing sweet songs
~ Bob Marley
Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark.
~ William Shakespeare
I slumbered spring's morning and missed the dawn from everywhere, I heard the cry of birds. That night the sound of wind and rain came. Who knows how many petals had fallen?
~ Meng Haoran
Openly I whispered and breathed a big gulp of air and saw all the beautiful trees and birds which surrounded me. The morning was beautiful like your smile.
~ Milton Hook
four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it.
~ Douglas Kennedy
Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked
~ Oscar Wilde
Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.
~ Carol P. Christ
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
~ Roger Tory Peterson
'Tis always morning somewhere, and aboveThe awakening continents, from shore to shore,Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
~ George Crumb
As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.
~ Louis Aragon
All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
~ Alexander Pope
Everything in life is built on principles - plants, seas, birds, all of the natural elements of nature, they all follow and obey certain basic fundamental principles.
~ Myles Munroe
The crows live in the world like you do. They are part of nature.
~ Shirley Geok-lin Lim