Bird Quote by Edward Thomas

What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.

— Henry David Thoreau

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

— Anonymous

“O, but Everyone Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Chorus [of Birds]: Man is a truly cunning creature.”

— Aristophanes

“It was the singers who taught the First Men to send messages by raven … but in those days, the birds would speak the words. The…

— George R.R. Martin

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

“Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The birders I encountered in books and in the world shared little in common except this simple secret: if you listen to birds, every…

— Kyo Maclear

Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?

— Charles Spurgeon

Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.

— Joseph Joubert

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

— Enid Bagnold