Birds never sing in caves.

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

— Henry David Thoreau

It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial…

— Henry David Thoreau

Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

— Henry David Thoreau

Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: 'We got through another night!'

— Enid Bagnold

All who ask receive, those who seek find, and to those who knock it shall be opened. Therefore, let us knock at the beautiful…

— John of Damascus

I cannot sing the old songs Though well I know the tune, Familiar as a cradle-song With sleep-compelling croon; Yet though I'm filled with…

— Robert Jones Burdette

“birds here sing readily enough without me buying them sheet music.”

— Emma Jameson

“Even the birds sing in the face of death But the rest of the world hears only a scream”

— Anonymous

“Birds can sing and fish can swim and I can do this.”

— Donna Tartt

Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.

— Donald Worster

Birds Fly in the Sky, because they don't know how to Cry! They know just one thing, to Sing!-RVM

— RVM

The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with…

— Christopher Columbus

Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

People find birdsong relaxing and reassuring because over thousands of years, they have learnt when the birds sing, they are safe; it's when birds…

— Julian Treasure

Under the one word "house" are included the schoolhouse, the almshouse, the jail, the tavern, the dwellinghouse; and the meanest shed or cave in…

— Henry David Thoreau