“The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best.”
“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very quiet if only those birds sing there that sang best.”
“If liberty sang a song, little,as the larynx of a bird,nowhere would there remain a tumbling wall.”
“The smell of death was thick in the city of Vārāṇasī. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang their songs.”
“These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.”