''Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.'' Victor Hugo
When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast. ~John Burroughs
Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent. ~William Wordsworth
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? ~Rose F. Kennedy
''A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as i walked..'' Anai Nin
''A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.''Maya Angelou
''Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang the best.'' Bernard Meltzer
''Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.'' Doug Coupland
''Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom.We feed them and tame them and think we know them.And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious'' David Attenborough
Seagulls... slim yachts of the element. ~Robinson Jeffers
''The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who...looked enviously at the birds soaring freely through space on the infinite highway of air'' Wilbur Wright
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