Quotes About Birding

#1. Some people are very competitive in their birding. Maybe they'll die happy, having seen a thousand species before they die, but I'll die happy knowing I've spent all that quiet time being present.

Lynn Thomson

#2. Quote is taken from Chapter 1:
Since Etta could log in her rare Baltimore oriole sighting, she decided she'd had enough birding for one day. It was just a fun hobby, not an obsession.

Ed Lynskey

#3. Birding, after all, is just a game. Going beyond that is what is important.

Roger Tory Peterson

#4. Birding to Change the World,

Anonymous

#5. [Richard Crossley's] previous bird guide, for ID'ing Eastern birds, is the most imaginative, original attempt to re-envision the birding guide and set his approach apart from that of Sibley, Kaufman, Peterson, Nat'l Geo, and the other bibles in the field.

James Wolcott

#6. Conservation is not a desperate, defensive effort. It is instead joyous and life-affirming. - from Zen Birding

Susan Guyette And David White

#7. To be standing together in a frosty field, looking up into the sky, marvelling at birds and revelling in the natural world around us, was a simple miracle. And I wondered why we were so rarely able to appreciate it.

Lynn Thomson

#8. I don't feed the birds because they need me; I feed the birds because I need them.

Kathi Hutton

#9. My mother hid the knife block.

Megan Miranda

#10. This Byrd wants a Wren.

Leslea Tash

#11. You could stop expecting the most awful thing to happen, because it already had.

Jodi Picoult

#12. [A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.

Steve Hagen

#13. Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

Karl Marx

#14. Every bird at the marsh filled us with a little light. I wondered if I was just so simple that this was all it took. But then I thought, I'm lucky that this is all it takes, and knew that I was especially lucky that this was all it took for my teenaged son, too.

Lynn Thomson

#15. The morning sun in New Orleans felt like it was trying to make a point, convincing the old world to believe something new.

Hunter Murphy

#16. But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we - Of many far wiser than we - And neither the angels in Heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

Tonya Hurley

#17. I sat there and my love to him poured out more and more, and, lo, he flew down to a stump, and then to my knee. I knew beyond a shadow of doubt that the important thing is the love that goes out from oneself.

Agnes Grinstead Anderson

#18. History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

#19. Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water. - Whelk

Maggie Stiefvater

#20. At a very basic level, people need to know that there is constancy in their jobs and, more broadly, in where the organization is headed.

Tom Rath

#21. I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.

Arthur Golden

#22. The sharp thrill of seeing them [killdeer birds] reminded me of childhood happiness, gifts under the Christmas tree, perhaps, a kind of euphoria we adults manage to shut out most of the time. This is why I bird-watch, to recapture what it's like to live in this moment, right now.

Lynn Thomson

#23. one learns to do by doing.

Mortimer J. Adler