Bird Quotes

Sing on, little bird.

My pleasures are among birds and flowers.

Wordsworth

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

John James Audubon

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Monet

Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.

Mary Oliver

If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

Proverb

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Maya Angelou

My music breathes of art, hers is the warble borne up to heaven, in the morning's blue calms.

Florence Percy

Everybody loves birdsong. It’s a human need… the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure.

Simon Barnes

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making nests in your hair

Chinese Proverb

Kiss of the sun for pardon. Song of the birds for mirth. You’re closer to God’s heart in a garden than any place else on earth.

Dorothy Frances Gurney

Our favourite music is birdsong and the wind in the treetops and the most important thing for us is the feeling of closeness to wild nature.

Ingvild Flesland

If we are in tune with Nature, all her music can find a way into the heart. When bird music is rare, their occasional songs are precious to the ear.

Frank Bolles

Up at dawn, the dewy freshness of the hour, the morning rapture of the birds, the daily miracle of sunrise, set her heart in tune, and gave her Nature's most healing balm.

Louisa May Alcott

The perfections of animals afford perpetual scope for reflection and improvement.  Every individual of the vast host of animated creation, whether bird, beast, fish, or insect, displays qualities fitted with unerring precision to its wants.

Mac Cormac

That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking himself to sleep without caring for tomorrow’s lodging, calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.

Martin Luther

Prompted by an innate desire to acquire a thorough knowledge of the birds of this happy country, I formed the resolution, immediately on my landing, to spend, if not all my time in that study, at least all that portion generally called leisure, and to draw each individual of its natural size and coloring.

Audibon

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter … to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring—these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

John Burroughs

Let the children learn to see in nature an expression of the love and the wisdom of God; let the thought of Him be linked with bird and flower and tree; let all things seen become to them the interpreters of the unseen, and all the events of life be a means of divine teaching. As they learn thus to study the lessons in all created things and in all life's experiences, show that the same laws which govern the things of nature and the events of life are to control us, that they are given for our good, and that only in obedience to them can we find true happiness and success.

Ellen G White