“The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best.”

“The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang 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.”

“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.”

“Not everyone is treated with such respect. But whenever my father sang, all the birds in the area would fall silent and listen. His voice was beautiful, high and clear and so filled with life it made you want to laugh and cry at the same time.”