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

“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

“...I was completely lost when I heard Heather and Lucy shout out the litany of ducks: common goldeneye, gadwall, long-tailed duck, bufflehead, redhead, ring-necked duck, white-winged scoter, red-breasted merganser, northern shoveler. If someone had told me then that it would take me five years to comfortably ID all those ducks, I would have quit on the spot.”
― Julia Zarankin, Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir

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