Quote by Paul Bowles

“It's funny how we give meaning to the chirping of birds and, in turn, silence human beings.”

— Faiqa Mansab

“From the roars of beasts springs forth praise The buzz of the insects and bees serenades praise The fish inhales and exhales praise And…

— Maisie A Smikle

“...it occurred that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day, might actually, in…

— David Foster Wallace

“The yells and yammering, croaking, gibbering and jabbering, howls and growls and curses, shrieking and shrinking that followed were beyond description. Several hundred wildcats…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Birds are the lunatics of the animal world.”

— Victor Lodato

“the thick stream of air hauled toward the summits first the great horses of noise reared against the sky then sluggishly the great limp…

— Aimé Césaire

“Forgoing eternally, sir, such things as, for example: two fresh-shorn lambs bleat in a new-mown field; four parallel blind-cast linear shadows creep across a…

— George Saunders

“Somewhere in the inky garden the nocturnal insects rattled like white noise.”

— Jane Harper

I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“What we see of the world is the mind's Invention and the mind Though stained by it, becoming Rivers, sun, mule-dung, flies- Can instantly…

— Phillip Whalen

“Even the birds sing in the face of death But the rest of the world hears only a scream”

— Anonymous

“...the great black bird broods outside my window in the high dark night waiting to enfold me when I leave the house tomorrow only…

— Jack Kerouac