Flornithology

The Earth laughs in flowers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The early bird catches the worm. - English Proverb

Birds of a feather flock together. - English Proverb

Generosity is the flower of justice. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every flower must grow through dirt. - Unknown

I want to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet

An old man loved is winter with flowers. - Unknown

The freedom of birds is an insult to me. - Cormac McCarthy

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. - James Lowell

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. - English Proverb

Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds. - Dejan Stojanovic

An old man in love is like a flower in winter. - Portuguese Proverb

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. - Lewis Mumford

Was there a bird for the souls of people like me? - Ruta Sepetys

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. - William Blake

The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. - Isaiah 35:1

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird. - Coco Chanel

Tennis: a sport in which even an unseeded player can flower. - Unknown

The fuchsia is the world's most carefully spelled flower. - Jimmy Barnes

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame. - Kohta Hirano

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing. - Bret Harte

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming. - Pablo Neruda

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. - Rabindranath Tagore

No one flower can every symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet. - William Safire

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. - Steven Wright

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. - H L Mencken

We rose to bring about Eutopia,
But all we got was Dev's myopia. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost. - Arthur Miller

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door. - Demetri Martin

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. - Buddha

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. - Charlotte Bronte

What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet. - William Shakespeare

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind. Listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody. - Eubie Blake

If Springtime crawls out of the wild mouths of flowers, then surely, Winter crawls out of mine. - Cecilia Llompart

Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds; it is also the story of jackals and hounds. - M.F. Moonzajer

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return. - Jewish Proverb

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. - e e cummings

Why buy flowers for Valentine's Day? Just go to a cemetery and collect a dozen off a few graves. - Jarod Kintz

I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own. - Michel de Montaigne

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell. - Dag Hammarskjold

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. - Franklin D Roosevelt

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. - Ogden Nash

One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. - Dale Carnegie

The vivacity of children is always charming, because it is always sincere. A grave child is a rose without fragrance. - Unknown

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. - Hal Borland

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. - James Dent

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. - Unknown

A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls. - Julie Murphy

A rose can say "I love you",
Orchids can enthrall,
But a weed bouquet in a chubby fist,
Yes, that says it all. - Unknown

If I were a flower,
humming bird would be my favourite bee
And If I were blind,
the light of darkness I'd love to see - Munia Khan