You cannot hear the birds for all the gossip.

I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn't escape the city. I like to wake and…

— Mariella Frostrup

We got him to talk to a psych doctor once, the doctor asked if he heard things other people don't. Sure, Paul answered, I…

— Nick Flynn

If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message?

— Robert Wilson

Candleford Green was but a small village and there were fields and meadows and woods all around it. As soon as Laura crossed the…

— Flora Thompson

“Oh how lovely to hear the birds!’ an elderly friend recently exclaimed. I smiled, ‘Yes, isn’t it?’ Actually it reminded me of living in…

— Emily Benet

I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast I am alone in the night Been trying hard not to get into…

— Lana Del Rey

“God has never really spoken, though a thought once crossed His mind. It is the echo of divine silence we hear the birds sing,…

— Daniel Ladinsky

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to…

— Larry David

“The sky was just beginning to light up a little, the quiet time when all the air is clean and you can hear birds,…

— Mark Harris

There wasn't a cloud in the sky, no wind, and everything was quiet around us - all we could hear were birds chirping in…

— Haruki Murakami

Hollywood is the only place where you can wake up in the morning and hear the birds coughing in the trees.

— Joe Frisco

Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

— Alexander Pope

I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as…

— Anne Rice

“If you can hear the birds singing, you're in the right place”

— Benny Bellamacina

I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin