Bird Quote by Carl Linnaeus

“Early Summer, loveliest season, The world is being colored in. While daylight lasts on the horizon, Sudden, throaty blackbirds sing. The dusty-colored cuckoo cuckoos.…

— Marie Heaney

Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the…

— Thomas Nash

When on a summer's morn I wake, And open my two eyes, Out to the clear, born-singing rills My bird-like spirit flies. To hear…

— W. H. Davies

The cuckoos remain silent for a long time (for several seasons) until they are able to sing sweetly (in the Spring) so as to…

— Chanakya

“And now above and beyond the birds' song, Andy hears a more distant singing, whether of voices or instruments, sounds or words, he cannot…

— Wendell Berry

O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?

— William Wordsworth

“The music interrupted mockingbirds and cardinals and half-hour church bells. It was at times orchestral and at times a cappella, a mighty love song…

— Rita Leganski

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

— Alexander Pope

“At length, one lovely morning, when the green corn lay soaking in the yellow sunlight, and the sky rose above the earth deep and…

— George MacDonald

“In mirth he mocks the other birds at noon, Catching the lilt of every easy tune; But when the day departs he sings of…

— Henry Van Dyke

When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then,…

— William Shakespeare

“I heard a rapid alternation of notes, a vibrating staccato of an ancient instrument, nearly as old as nature herself, a cricket singing in…

— Jeffrey A. White