“A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.”

“Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.”

Leo Tolstoy book Resurrection

“Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

“Florentine… Florentine Lacasse… half song, half squalor, half springtime, half misery, the young man murmured.”

Gabrielle Roy book The Tin Flute

“Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.”

Louis De Bernières book Birds Without Wings

“God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.”

Jacques Deval (1890–1972) French film director and writer

“And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“All of the birds are laughing
Come on let's all join in.”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

“This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge… It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist