
“How can a bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?”
As quoted in Investing with Impact: Why Finance is a Force for Good (2016) by Jeremy Balkin
“How can a bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?”
4 Burr. Part IV., 2379.
Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)
“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Variant: A cage went in search of a bird.
“God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.”
Quoted in Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell, A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations (1992), p. 22