I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. Joseph Addison
Every morning during certain seasons of the year, the thrushes and blackbirds on all the lawns throughout the country draw out of their holes an astonishing number of worms; and this they could not do, unless they lay close to the surface. Charles Darwin
Who knows who wrote that song of summer, That blackbirds sing at dusk, This is a song of colour, Where sands sing in crimson, red and rust, Then climb into bed and turn to dust. Kate Bush
Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not. Henry David Thoreau
Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms. Anne Stevenson
There'll be white blackbirds before an unwilling woman ties the knot. Irish Proverb