Admiral Quote by Christopher Columbus

“Tired of the sea, I need a tree that will hold my thoughts with birdsong; not tides returning them along the shoreline to laughing…

— Basith

“Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The perfume of the flowers and of the bay tree are wafted on high, like incense. The birds sing sweet songs of praise to…

— William Wendt

“You must have birds in your heart, Madam, before you can find them in the bushes," said John Burroughs, the great naturalist, to a…

— Orison Swett Marden

The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn,…

— Victor Hugo

“Dreyfus once wrote from Devil's Island that he would see the most glorious birds. Many years later in Brittany he realized they had only…

— Colin Higgins

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet…

— Joyce Kilmer

I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird…

— George Herbert

“A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Some single trees, wholly bright scarlet, seen against others of their kind still freshly green, or against evergreens, are more memorable than whole groves…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Yesterday I noticed a scent of bark outside that I had not smelled in years. While the bark lingered in my nose, flushing out…

— Jonathan Hull

“Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way.”

— Margaret Craven