Able Quote by Chanakya

If the cuckoo does not sing, kill it.

— Oda Nobunaga

There’s a time to be silent - to build up a reason to sing again.

— Jon Foreman

As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as…

— Carl Linnaeus

Birds don't sing after a storm, they sing before the next one.

— John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic

How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop…

— William Blake

Right now the day length is exactly the same as in spring when birds key into it and begin singing. The birds are a…

— Craig Thompson

Even with insects - some can sing, some can't.

— Kobayashi Issa

People find birdsong relaxing and reassuring because over thousands of years, they have learnt when the birds sing, they are safe; it's when birds…

— Julian Treasure

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

— Henry David Thoreau

Loud is the summer's busy song The smallest breeze can find a tongue, While insects of each tiny size Grow teasing with their melodies,…

— John Clare

The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring.

— Thomas Gray

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song…

— Charles de Lint