Anders Mickelson

“Those old ghostly intuitions that have tied sinew and soul together for millennia had taken over, were doing their thing, making me feel uncomfortable in bright sunlight, uneasy on the wrong side of a ridge, somehow required to walk over the back of a bleached rise of grasses to get to something on the other side: which turned out to be a pond. Small birds rose up in clouds from the pond’s edge: chaffinches, bramblings, a flock of long-tailed tits that caught in willow branches like animated cotton buds.”
― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

“And when we left, clutching a plastic bag with his belongings, the clouds were still there, a frieze of motionless cumulus over the Thames flat as a matte painting on glass.”
― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

“The air reeked of pine resin and the pitchy vinegar of wood ants.”
― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

“It isn’t only color but a glowing, as though the leaves gobbled the light of the autumn sun and then released it slowly.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley: In Search of America