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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

—Wilbur Wright

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Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

—Saskya Pandita

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

—Rose Kennedy

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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

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There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow, just you wait and see.

—Nat Burton

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Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.

—Mitchell Burgess

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Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.

—Mitchell Burgess

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I know why the caged bird sings.

—Maya Angelou

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

—Joseph Addison

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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!

—John Burroughs

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

—Jacques Deval

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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

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

—Henry Van Dyke

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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

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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

—Emily Dickinson

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