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title: "22 Birds Sang Quotes by 21 authors"
description: "Browse 22 Birds Sang quotes by 21 authors. Discover the best Birds Sang sayings and thoughts."
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> [“The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-james-audubon/the-woods-would-be-very-silent-if-no-birds-sang-except-those-who-sang/)

[John James Audubon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-james-audubon/)

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> [Use what talent you posses; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/use-what-talent-you-posses-the-woods-would-be-very-silent-if-no-birds/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“The birds they sang at the break of day. Start again!! I heard them say”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-cohen/the-birds-they-sang-at-the-break-of-day-start-again-i-heard-them-say/)

[Leonard Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-cohen/)

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> [Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/oh-the-little-birds-sang-east-and-the-little-birds-sang-west/)

[Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/)

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> [“The forest would be very quiet if only a few birds sang.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annonymous/the-forest-would-be-very-quiet-if-only-a-few-birds-sang/)

[Annonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annonymous/)

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> [If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-van-dyke/if-only-the-best-birds-sang-the-forest-would-be-silent/)

[Henry Van Dyke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-van-dyke/)

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> [“Keegan had never realized how absolute silence could be in the minutes before dawn. Maybe because the expectation of battle filled the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-crane/keegan-had-never-realized-how-absolute-silence-could-be-in-the/)

[Julia Crane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-crane/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef1/julia-crane-31102_silence_keegan-had-never-realized-how-absolute-s_1123891.jpg)

> [“The first thing Rick noticed was the lack of noise. No birds sang in the trees. No squirrels ran across the yard.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-ripley/the-first-thing-rick-noticed-was-the-lack-of-noise-no-birds-sang-in/)

[Ron Ripley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-ripley/)

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> [Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-meltzer/use-those-talents-you-have-you-will-make-it-you-will-give-joy-to-the/)

[Bernard Meltzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-meltzer/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84c/bernard-meltzer-31704_bird_use-those-talents-you-have-you-will-make_3097611.png)

> [I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/i-have-read-somewhere-that-in-the-emperor-s-palace-at-byzantium-was-a/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

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> [The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-light-struck-upon-the-trees-in-the-garden-making-one-leaf/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/957/anonymous-1_bedroom_the-light-struck-upon-the-trees-in-the-g_1532421.jpg)

> [“He went along the corridor to the tiny spare room at the back of the house and looked down into the gardens…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/he-went-along-the-corridor-to-the-tiny-spare-room-at-the-back-of-the/)

[Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35d/neil-gaiman-29_quote_he-went-along-the-corridor-to-the-tiny-s_1539643.jpg)

> [The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-birds-sang-the-proles-sang-the-party-did-not-sing-all-round-the/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b83/george-orwell-57_bazaars_the-birds-sang-the-proles-sang-the-party_1019279.jpg)

> [These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/these-people-have-learned-not-from-books-but-in-the-fields-in-the/)

[Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c73/anton-chekhov-298_behinds_these-people-have-learned-not-from-books_1371098.jpg)

> [What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bailey-aldrich/what-is-more-cheerful-now-in-the-fall-of-the-year-than-an-open-wood/)

[Thomas Bailey Aldrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-bailey-aldrich/)

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> [“During the night a fine, delicate summer rain had washed the plains, leaving the morning sky crisp and clean. The sun shone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cate-campbell-beatty/during-the-night-a-fine-delicate-summer-rain-had-washed-the-plains/)

[Cate Campbell Beatty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cate-campbell-beatty/)

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> [“I sent a message in the wind, when the birds sang their song. And when you went to sleep last night, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-mary/i-sent-a-message-in-the-wind-when-the-birds-sang-their-song-and-when/)

[Mary Mary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-mary/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6b/mary-mary-18928_last-night_i-sent-a-message-in-the-wind-when-the-bi_2065754.jpg)

> [O lovely river of Yvette! O darling river! like a bride, Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette Thou goest to wed the Orge's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/o-lovely-river-of-yvette-o-darling-river-like-a-bride-some-dimpled/)

[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/)

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> [“I distinctly heard the blackbird from the top of a spruce tree, and clear as glass I heard the lark high up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/per-petterson/i-distinctly-heard-the-blackbird-from-the-top-of-a-spruce-tree-and/)

[Per Petterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/per-petterson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/510/per-petterson-8468_bird_i-distinctly-heard-the-blackbird-from-th_138117.png)

> [“It is sad when man’s unhappiness veils from him the smiling face of nature. The promise of the early morning was maintained.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-meade-falkner/it-is-sad-when-man-s-unhappiness-veils-from-him-the-smiling-face-of/)

[John Meade Falkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-meade-falkner/)

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> [“The only sounds here were lazy, ponderous, gentle sounds. A bee hung low in the warm afternoon haze, and he watched it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-montoure/the-only-sounds-here-were-lazy-ponderous-gentle-sounds-a-bee-hung-low/)

[Michael Montoure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-montoure/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc0/michael-montoure-25960_auditory_the-only-sounds-here-were-lazy-ponderous_3169266.jpg)

> [The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-rich-sweet-smell-of-the-hayricks-rose-to-his-chamber-window-the/)

[Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/)

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                        "text": "O lovely river of Yvette! O darling river! like a bride, Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide. O lovely river Yvette! O darling stream! on balanced wings The wood-birds sang the chansonnette That here a wandering poet sings.",
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                        "text": "“I distinctly heard the blackbird from the top of a spruce tree, and clear as glass I heard the lark high up and several other birds whose song I did not know, and it was so weird, it was like a film without sound with another sound added, I was in two places at once, and nothing hurt. 'Yahoo!' I screamed, and could hear my own voice, but it seemed to be coming from a different place, from the great space where the birds sang, a bird's cry from inside that silence, and for a moment I was completely happy.”",
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                        "text": "“It is sad when man’s unhappiness veils from him the smiling face of nature. The promise of the early morning was maintained. The sky was of a translucent blue, broken with islands and continents of clouds, dazzling white like cotton-wool. A soft, warm breeze blew from the west, the birds sang merrily in every garden bush, and Cullerne was a town of gardens, where men could sit each under his own vine and fig-tree. The bees issued forth from their hives, and hummed with cheery droning chorus in the ivy-berries that covered the wall-tops with deep purple. The old vanes on the corner pinnacles of Saint Sepulchre’s tower shone as if they had been regilt. Great flocks of plovers flew wheeling over Cullerne marsh, and flashed with a blinking silver gleam as they changed their course suddenly. Even through the open window of the organist’s room fell a shaft of golden sunlight that lit up the peonies of the faded, threadbare carpet. But inside beat two poor human hearts, one unhappy and one hopeless, and saw nothing of the gold vanes, or the purple ivy-berries, or the plovers, or the sunlight, and heard nothing of the birds or the bees.”",
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