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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Category: Birds Author: Joseph Addison
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
Category: Birds Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Category: Birds Author: Izaak Walton
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The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
Category: Birds Author: Eric Berne
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
Category: Birds Author: J G Holland
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One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Category: Birds Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them. ~
Category: Birds Author: Martin H. Fischer
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The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Category: Birds Author: Author Unknown
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Use the talents you possess - for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best.
Category: Birds Author: Henry Van Dyke
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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Category: Birds Author: Robert Lynd
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A Robin Redbreast in a cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
Category: Birds Author: William Blake
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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.
Category: Birds Author: John Burroughs
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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
Category: Birds Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
Category: Birds Source: Chinese Proverb
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