my old age, I see that life itself is often more fantastic and terrible than the stories we believed as children, and that perhaps there is no harm in finding magic among the trees.
“burned so fast and hot the perfect shapes of the leaves were still embossed on the ash.”
― Firestorm
― Firestorm
“there was something therapeutic and necessary about the birding. I suspected it had to do with the intense focus and the way it brings you to the present. When I was birding, I didn’t worry about the past and lament all those best years being over, or fear the future, empty and rapidly disappearing. The present was different, like my brain had declutched from the competing anxieties and I was free to coast in neutral.”
― Lost Among the Birds: Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year
― Lost Among the Birds: Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year
“Whose Names Are Unknown”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
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