

“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.”
― Birding with Yeats: A Mother's Memoir
― Birding with Yeats: A Mother's Memoir

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas

“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.”
― Birding with Yeats: A Mother's Memoir
― Birding with Yeats: A Mother's Memoir

“Sometimes I think that the point of birdwatching is not the actual seeing of the birds, but the cultivation of patience. Of course, each time we set out, there's a certain amount of expectation we'll see something, maybe even a species we've never seen before, and that it will fill us with light. But even if we don't see anything remarkable - and sometimes that happens - we come home filled with light anyway.”
― Birding with Yeats: A Mother's Memoir
― Birding with Yeats: A Mother's Memoir
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