Birdscapes Quotes & Sayings

Birdscapes moves rather like those swallows, dipping and swerving to pick up all sorts of items of interest. Mynott tells plenty of good birding tales, but these serve mainly to set off trains of reflection ... Reading Birdscapes is like going birding with a learned, witty, and somewhat irreverent companion who isn't satisfied just to check things off ... [D]elightful to read on a journey or a housebound day, and [opens] fascinating new horizons for anyone who wants to enlarge his or her interest in birds. — Robert O. Paxton

One day I will know the face of love...it shall gaze back at me from a pool of water, undisturbed by what lies beneath. — Susan D. Taylor

The next world war will be fought with stones. — Albert Einstein

How utterly our past suffuses us. We live in all our days at once. — Hanif Kureishi

Whoever thinks from a distance about his situation lives it with suffering; whoever is close to it lives it with consolation, the fruit of a true wisdom. — Simone Troisi

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before. — Logan Pearsall Smith

I sit on a bollard and listen to the swallows swooping among the old cedars by the side of the road, and I realize that I have been drinking for hours and yet I have no memory of it. It is negative time. — Lawrence Osborne

It is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person. — George Howe Colt