William Broderip Quote

The melody of birds finds its way to the heart of everyone; but the cause that prompts the outpourings that make copse, rock, and river, ring again on a fine spring morning is more a matter of doubt with ornithologists than the uninitiated in zoological mysteries might suppose.


Zoological Recreations, Part First: Birds (p. 13), Lea & Blanchard. 1849


The melody of birds finds its way to the heart of everyone; but the cause that prompts the outpourings that make copse, rock, and river, ring again...

The melody of birds finds its way to the heart of everyone; but the cause that prompts the outpourings that make copse, rock, and river, ring again...

The melody of birds finds its way to the heart of everyone; but the cause that prompts the outpourings that make copse, rock, and river, ring again...

The melody of birds finds its way to the heart of everyone; but the cause that prompts the outpourings that make copse, rock, and river, ring again...