Birds

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

—William Blake

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

—Pat Buckley

A forest bird never wants a cage.

—Henrik Ibsen

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

—Aesop

The birds are molting. If only man could molt also—his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.

—James Allen

One swallow does not make a summer.

—Aristotle

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

—Belva Plain

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

—Charles Lindbergh

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

—Chinese proverb

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

—Emily Dickinson

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

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

—Henry Van Dyke

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

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

—Jacques Deval