Cuckoos Quote by Karen Joy Fowler

“The hawkless valley bloomed with the soft voices of the waking owls.”

— J.A. Baker

“A bird sings in the morning, an owl hoots at night...it's still a bloody bird.”

— Oliver Reed

“Children have their morning song as well as birds.”

— Victor Hugo

“The lullaby had the kind of tune everyone thinks they've heard before but can't remember where. A tune like that floats in the air…

— Kathleen Winter

The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write it. The…

— John Muir

God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, you piles of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the…

— George Eliot

A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a hundred peaks…

— Kenneth Rexroth

Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains…

— Julie Andrews

Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of…

— Charles Dickens

The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one…

— G. M. Trevelyan

“Golden head by golden head, Like two pigeons in one nest Folded in each other's wings, They lay down in their curtained bed: Like…

— Christina Rossetti