All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
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