8 Quotes by Kyo Maclear about birds




  • Author Kyo Maclear
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    The birders I encountered in books and in the world shared little in common except this simple secret: if you listen to birds, every day will have a song in it.

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  • Author Kyo Maclear
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    If the wind is going the right way, some birds like to spread their wings and hang in the air, appearing not to move a bit. It is a subtle skill, to remain appreciably steady amid the forces of drift and gravity, to be neither rising nor falling.

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  • Author Kyo Maclear
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    Now when I hear birdsong, I feel an entry to that understory. When I am feeling too squeezed on the ground, exhausted by everything in my care, I look for a little sky. There are always birds flying back and forth, city birds flitting around our human edges, singing their songs.

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