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- Oh for a book and a shady nook...
- John Wilson (1785 - 1854)
- You can cover a great deal of country in books.
- Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912)
- Live always in the best company when you read.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- 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.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
- Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
- 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.
- Eric Berne (1910 - 1970)
- God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
- J. G. Holland
- God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
- Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien
- 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.
- Robert Lynd (1879 - 1949), The Blue Lion and Other Essays
- A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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