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1 " I breathe in the soft, saturated exhalations of cedar trees and salmonberry bushes, fireweed and wood fern, marsh hawks and meadow voles, marten and harbor seal and blacktail deer. I breathe in the same particles of air that made songs in the throats of hermit thrushes and gave voices to humpback whales, the same particles of air that lifted the wings of bald eagles and buzzed in the flight of hummingbirds, the same particles of air that rushed over the sea in storms, whirled in high mountain snows, whistled across the poles, and whispered through lush equatorial gardens…air that has passed continually through life on earth. I breathe it in, pass it on, share it in equal measure with billions of other living things, endlessly, infinitely. "
― , The Island Within
2 " And you know once a man has fished, or watched the thrushes hovering in flocks over the village in the bright, cool, autumn days, he can never really be a townsman, and to the day of his death he will be drawn to the country. "
― Anton Chekhov , The Complete Short Novels
3 " In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins. "
― Elizabeth Goudge , The Rosemary Tree
4 " O thrush your song is passing sweet But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young. "
