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In some cases a long migration can take a barbaric toll on a bird's anatomy, such that she sheds half of her body weight; such that her muscle tissue wastes and her liver shrivels; such that her intestines commence to digest themselves.
— Feb 23, 2025 11:44PM
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Jen R.
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This making of the flock, which had for two years been fending off the awareness of his daily absence.
— Feb 28, 2025 12:29AM
Jen R.
is on page 177 of 232
Sometimes, I look back and wonder why there seems to be so little, so crushingly little, and I struggle to fully believe - to fully accept - that just this, this and this is where the countless hours went - the countless gestures and strokes and flourishes, the countless thoughts and decisions and preparations. .. I believe it does not matter at all; I believe it is all that matters.
— Feb 27, 2025 01:56PM
Jen R.
is on page 127 of 232
I consider myself a disciple of [William] Morris - for his doctrine of truth to nature and to materials, and to people. Art must arise from daily life, he believed, and the person who labours must be inseparable from the product of their labour - it must synchronously be a product of their will, their pains, their talents, their tenderness.
— Feb 27, 2025 01:10AM
Jen R.
is on page 112 of 232
… contentment - from the satisfaction of making well and from an object well made - and all of this experience - these feelings - had been nailed into the pine
— Feb 26, 2025 12:39AM
Jen R.
is on page 101 of 232
[Audubon’s] name is now inextricably linked to conservation in spite of the fact that, during the years he worked on his book, he shot dead tens of thousands of birds. Audubon didn't care about the autonomous life of each individual eagle or tern or coot or chickadee; he cared principally and obsessively about the accuracy and beauty of his depictions.
— Feb 24, 2025 12:14AM
Jen R.
is on page 61 of 232
I must stop once the boredom becomes intolerable, knowing that if I plunge on past this point I will risk arriving at resentment, and this will fundamentally contaminate the genuineness of the thing - because sour feelings make a soured object, and people will be able to recognise this, and even if they don't -
I will be able to recognise it.
— Feb 21, 2025 06:51AM
I will be able to recognise it.
Jen R.
is on page 51 of 232
It is important to listen, so the birders say, as important as it is to watch - or even more - because often you will only know which direction to turn your head from the sound of the song.
— Feb 20, 2025 11:44AM
Jen R.
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I assigned myself a room where I would write… As for the other stations, they have never been formally designated. Instead, they have asserted themselves gradually, …
— Feb 19, 2025 11:56AM
Jen R.
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...fish who swim against the current - salmon and herring who live in the open sea but are compelled to travel back to the rivers and streams in which they are born in order to spawn-
— Feb 19, 2025 08:46AM
Jen R.
is on page 10 of 232
...three months to get there and two-and-a-half months to get back again, and so the northern wheatear devotes almost half of every year to these journeys... There are easier routes.. but [she] doesn't choose them; she doesn't choose at all.. she follows the route her ancestors initiated at the end of the last Ice Age... the convoluted, inefficient, superfluous directions that are her genetic inheritance.
— Feb 19, 2025 08:15AM
