Luke Dempsey > Quotes

“It seemed to me truer to the experience to be simply astounded that a small bird floated out there in this century, as its forebears had done for thousands of years before either Jesus or any of the rest of us. Nature had no moral imperative: nothing helped the bird; there was no fellow love for it out there; the water didn’t help it, save harboring its food source; the other birds wouldn’t mourn its passing; the weather was just the weather. A man stood on the beach, watched it pass, and spoke out loud its name, in wonder and intense joy.”
― Luke Dempsey, A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All

“the word birdwatcher is a synonym for “completely unshaggable”—”
― Luke Dempsey, A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All