Farmers Quote by A.E. Coppard

“There was a man with tongue of wood who essayed to sing, and in truth it was lamentable; but there was one who heard…

— Stephen Crane

“For whom, for what, was that bird singing? No mate, no rival was watching it. What made it sit at the edge of the…

— George Orwell

“The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best.”

— John James Audubon

“When I was green and blossomed in the Spring I was mute wood. Now I am dead I sing.”

— Allen Grossman

“Did you know that every time a country song is played, a cute little puppy keels over dead?”

— Nicole Williams

“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very quiet if only those birds sing there that sang best.”

— Henry Van Dyke

“even though I don’t really like country music, sometimes, if you let it, the sound of all those people singing their hearts out can…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“you've got the words to change a nation but your biting your tongue, you've spent a lifetime in silence afraid that you'll say something…

— Emeli Sande

“How I go to the wood Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and…

— Mary Oliver

“Yes, trust them not, for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide…

— Robert Greene

“Our enemy is man with his arrogance and greed. The woodsman in particular. Destroyer of trees. Clearer of land. Owner of fire. While he…

— Ron Koertge

“I own a crevice stuffed with moss and a couch of lemming fur; I sit and listen to the music of water dripping on…

— John A. Haines