Birdsong Quotes
26 quotes by 25 authors
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It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an…
— Eva Ibbotson
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Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure
— Simon Barnes
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Silent Summer - a never-ending heat wave, devoid of birdsong, insect hum, and all the weird and wonderful living noises that subconsciously keep us company.
— Mark Lynas
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True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.
— Edward Hoagland
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Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.
— Rumi
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God was something I did not understand the way kids who went to church did. They said God was a man in the sky with…
— Melissa Coleman
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Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts,…
— Wendell Berry
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Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Did you not look upon the world this morning and imagine it as the boy might see it? And did you not recognize the mist…
— Jamie O'Neill
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A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I woke early like a condemned man to the naivety of birdsong.
— Nick Drake
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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
— W. P. Kinsella
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And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never really noticed it…
— Michael Frayn
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...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not strangers: our hands…
— Truman Capote
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I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a…
— Nancy E. Turner
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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
— Catullus
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Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece…
— Eddie Redmayne
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He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming, smoky streets of Ankh-Morpork, which was always at its best in the spring,…
— Terry Pratchett
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It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one could…
— Isaac Marion
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Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in grasses…
— Elizabeth Goudge
Who Wrote These Birdsong Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 26 Birdsong Quotes as follows: