Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
A bird is three things: Feathers, flight, and song, and feathers are the least of these.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
The heron forgets the fish it has caught, the doves forget the snare in which they are taken.
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
In order to see birds, it is necessary to become a part of the silence.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
A robin redbreast in a cage puts all heaven in a rage.
The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.