In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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.
This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer.
A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.
We've got to protect the nursery schools. I'm chair of governors in a nursery school in my area. If we lost the provision, I'd be worried about the socialising skills of children.
When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.
I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
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