I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1712-09-06), The Spectator, No. 477
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Why do birds sing in the morning? It’s the triumphant shout: “We got through another night!”
Enid Bagnold (1889–1981) English writer
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Unsourced in this form. In her 1969 autobiography she writes:I hear that waking before dawn, that sentinel cry; and in thicket and thorn up comes the music. I hear it in the pillow; it intoxicates me. Why do they do it? I have never been taught about birds. Is it the triumph-shout -- "We have got through another night!" It may be.
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1712-09-06), The Spectator, No. 477
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