Air Quote by Michael Frayn

“Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a sort of lark or something. Our tradition…

— Jane Johnson

There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange…

— Rachel Carson

In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will…

— Clinton Scollard

When on a summer's morn I wake, And open my two eyes, Out to the clear, born-singing rills My bird-like spirit flies. To hear…

— W. H. Davies

“Life and summer are fleeting,’ sang the bird. ‘Snow and dark, and the winter comes. Nothing remains the same.”

— Elyne Mitchell

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they…

— Pete Hamill

“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

“My love grows wings, A lost bird in an unfamiliar sky, In my dreams your voice still rings, But here the silence only seems…

— Natalie Miller

Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear…

— Henry David Thoreau

“When your life is about to change, there is a silence that surrounds you. An eerie calm. Just as the birds quiet their singing…

— Kimberly Stedronsky Adams

Was reading a book. It was about a canary. Every year the canarycomes back with a new song. It never repeats its song in…

— Medeski Martin And Wood

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and…

— Rabindranath Tagore