“He visits the bird sanctuary.”

Of Garrulity
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Adverbs (2006), Often

Source: Neverwhere (1996), Chapter 10; Gaiman here references the famous statement of Isaac Asimov from "Foundation", Astounding Science-Fiction (May 1942)

"Birth" (1947), trans. Peter Dale Scott
Daylight (1953)
Context: He doesn't know birds live
In another time than man.
He doesn't know a tree lives
In another time than birds
And will grow slowly
Upward in a gray column
Thinking with its roots
Of the silver of underworld kingdoms.

Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 510.
Religious Wisdom

2016, Hajj hijacked by oppressors, Muslims should reconsider management of Hajj (September 2015)

Source: The Oven Bird (1916)
Context: There is a singer everyone has heard,
Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird,
Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again.
He says that leaves are old and that for flowers
Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten.
He says the early petal-fall is past
When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers
On sunny days a moment overcast;
And comes that other fall we name the fall.
He says the highway dust is over all.
The bird would cease and be as other birds
But that he knows in singing not to sing.
The question that he frames in all but words
Is what to make of a diminished thing.

Source: Burned

"Dedication" (1945), trans. Czesŀaw Miŀosz
Rescue (1945)