Bird Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of…

— Barbara Hurd

O lovely eyes of azure, Clear as the waters of a brook that run Limpid and laughing in the summer sun!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In a marshland amongst the crocodiles, there float beautiful water lilies! Even in the Hell, one can find the good and the beauty.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Sunlight shines beauty aglow, by the banks of the river that quietly flow. Misty rain yields comfort to a muggy night. Wind of a…

— sherman kennon

The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely sobering water.But…

— Friedrich Holderlin

As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside,…

— Celia Thaxter

“Early Summer, loveliest season, The world is being colored in. While daylight lasts on the horizon, Sudden, throaty blackbirds sing. The dusty-colored cuckoo cuckoos.…

— Marie Heaney

The fall of waters and the song of birds, And hills that echo to the distant berds, Are luxuries excelling all the glare The…

— William Cowper

“Crossing the Swamp" Here is the endless wet thick cosmos, the center of everything—the nugget of dense sap, branching vines, the dark burred faintly…

— Mary Oliver

Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.

— James Russell Lowell

A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the…

— Dylan Thomas

I like rain and mist. I've never understood why people exclaim over bright skies and bushels of glaring sunshine.

— Franny Billingsley