Kenia Sedler

“I have heard experienced birders call the Lesser Goldfinch a 'trash bird' because it is so common and numerous. I heard others call a House Sparrow a 'junk' bird, an invasive, like the European Starling. I understand the antipathy. Invasive birds usurp habitat and resources. But I can't help but feel discomfort. The rhetoric is often the same as the racist ones I hear about Chinese people.”
― Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

“The freedom of a leisurely activity is the freedom from results or outcomes beyond it, not the freedom of rest or recreation.”
― Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life

“But nothing in the world would have brought him to reveal, by publicly protesting, that he was becoming one of those who no longer have anything in common with their fellow creatures. Wary, he kept silent about it, like all the rest.”
― Colette Gauthier-Villars, Chéri and The End of Chéri

“When you have no future, you vote for the past.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter