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“The light that renders a crow incandescent in the afternoon is the same light that only minutes later tenders the gift of twilight, when colors fade and all the world becomes a crow.”
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
“Pull up a weed from the wet soil of the drenched garden and smell the rich life the earthworm has left behind. Just a whiff of it will flood you with a feeling of well-being. The microbes in freshly turned soil stimulate serotonin production, working on the human brain the same way antidepressants do.”
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
“Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.”
― You Could Make This Place Beautiful
― You Could Make This Place Beautiful
“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. —Mary Oliver”
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
“I wonder if the crows were mourning their fallen member. Given so many had flown in from all directions to join the mourning (or lynch mob), the fake crow must have resembled a much-loved muckity-muck member of the tribe. Would they mourn a crow they didn’t know? Humans do. I have, for the victims of 9/11, for children shot in schools, for fictional characters no less real than a fake crow.”
― The Backyard Bird Chronicles
― The Backyard Bird Chronicles
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