“It doesn’t matter if you’re born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan’s egg!”...

“Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used...

“Swans in the winter air A white perfection have W. H. Auden” 

Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments. Michael Gira 

“For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.”...

“Yesterday the twig was brown and bare; To-day the glint of green is there; Tomorrow will be leaflets spare; I...

Swans in the winter air A white perfection have ~ W. H. Auden 

“All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all!” ~ Kenneth Grahame 

“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” ~ George Santayana 

“The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet.” ~  John Milton ...