Bird Quote by David Mitchell

“The plants and animals all around us were waking from a long sleep, and our yard was slowly transformed into a carpet of soft…

— Arlene Stafford-Wilson

Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?

— Matthew Arnold

The spring has sprung, the grass is rizz. I wonder where them birdies is?

— A. A. Milne

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

— Alexander Pope

I slumbered spring's morning and missed the dawn from everywhere, I heard the cry of birds. That night the sound of wind and rain…

— Meng Haoran

I woke early like a condemned man to the naivety of birdsong.

— Nick Drake

The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been…

— Henry David Thoreau

Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: 'We got through another night!'

— Enid Bagnold

Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely…

— Rachel Carson

The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?

— Philip K. Dick

Go to bed when summers ends, what a good idea; wake up bright and early when birds announce its spring.

— Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire

Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They were manifesting…

— George Saunders