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“For Zugunruhe is the word describing what's inside a bird that makes it want to spread its wings and cherish flight above all things.”

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Book:Dreams of Zugunruhe

Source: Dreams of Zugunruhe

“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.”

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Book:Approaching the Magic Hour: Memories of Walter Anderson

Source: Approaching the Magic Hour: Memories of Walter Anderson

“This landscape consists of Pablo Casals' cello and four turkey vultures riding the ribbon of warm air rising from the highway. Concrete forms for abstractions my mind can only grope at: the wings and blood, the blue and black and float and soar, the aching beauty.”

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Book:The Black Swan: Memory, Midlife, and Migration

Source: The Black Swan: Memory, Midlife, and Migration

“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.”

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Book:Birding with Yeats: A Mother's Memoir

Source: Birding with Yeats: A Mother's Memoir

“[Birds'] lives parallel our own in so many ways and are so filled with humorous and tragic incidents as to fascinate us when once we have learned to observe them intelligently. If only we could sit down and talk things over with any one of them, I am sure that bird would be a valued friend for life.”

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Author:Arthur A Allen