Today’s HOME-Spun Wisdom

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Looking forward to spring? It’s the time for many birds to fly back north. Here are some comments about our feathered friends.
Today’s HOME-Spun Wisdom

RISMEDIA, March 9 ? Looking forward to spring? It’s the time for many birds to fly back north. Here are some comments about our feathered friends.

“I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ”

- Joseph Addison

“I know why the caged bird sings.”

- Paul Laurence Dunbar

“There’ll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover,

Tomorrow, just you wait and see.”

- Nat Burton

“There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.”

- Robert Lynd

“Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.”

- Saskya Pandita

“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”

- William Blake

“You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.”

- William Henry Hudson

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