Finches Quotes

“She did not respond, only clung harder to my embrace, and I held her with all the afflictions of a man torn by love. What a miracle she was, what a truly exquisite paragon of beauty and virtue so incredibly combined. And all perhaps wrenched from my grasp because of a war I had no real interest in nor knowledge of. In that moment I did not care who won, if only it would end and I could be with her. I would accept the whole responsibility of defeat if I had to, if only it meant a life with her by my side.
I just wanted her. Needed her. As simply and clearly as one needs food and oxygen and light, I needed her in my life.
And above us, flittering tranquilly in the trees above, the finches and skylarks continued to sing peacefully into the fading sun.”
― Jamie L. Harding

“One of the truly bizarre things about our current cultural situation is that the leading figures of the scientific establishment seem genuinely amazed that the citizens do not accept finch-beak variation as proof of the claim that humans, like all animals and plants, are accidental products of a purposeless universe in which only material processes have operated from the beginning.”
― Phillip E. Johnson, Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds

“Brain damage
is like water seepage

through computer circuits
where the water goes

information
disappears

But it can leave islands
untouched

A synapse fires
through unspoiled matter
he says

Finch
Finch

in words collapsed
upon themselves. Says

Father
Father

And I imagine him
then

preacher's tall son

wandering red clay paths
listening

and looking up

for small, quick shifts on branches”
― Ailish Hopper, Dark~Sky Society

“Musical chirps rang loud on a late summer morning, so close they seemed to echo from the walls, filling the house with bright, rhythmic melodies. The music led up to the rafters where, perched beneath the heft of the August sky, a pair of house finches performed a lighthearted rooftop duet. This was the magical moment I stumbled upon just before they took flight.”
― Marie Helen Abramyan