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peonyp 's review for:
Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation
by Kyo Maclear
reflective
slow-paced
2024
The paragraphs are like prose poems, and the spaces between them invite pause and reflection. Reading the book is a bit like bird-watching, with empty spaces and intense concentration.
This time through, I was especially heartened by the way she talks about finding space for creativity in the midst of many commitments and nature in the midst of a city.
2017
Some passages I especially liked:
On getting a copy of Roger Tory Peterson's field guide: "I held it carefully and maybe a little warily, as though touching a book that stored all the many things I'd never known to wonder about before" (81).
Learning stuff: "Die knowing something. Die knowing your knowing will be incomplete" (103).
"We are brave in our willingness to carry on even as our pounding hearts say, 'You will fall and land on your face.' Brave in our terrific tolerance for making a hundred mistakes. Day after day. We are brave in our persistence" (124).
The paragraphs are like prose poems, and the spaces between them invite pause and reflection. Reading the book is a bit like bird-watching, with empty spaces and intense concentration.
This time through, I was especially heartened by the way she talks about finding space for creativity in the midst of many commitments and nature in the midst of a city.
2017
Some passages I especially liked:
On getting a copy of Roger Tory Peterson's field guide: "I held it carefully and maybe a little warily, as though touching a book that stored all the many things I'd never known to wonder about before" (81).
Learning stuff: "Die knowing something. Die knowing your knowing will be incomplete" (103).
"We are brave in our willingness to carry on even as our pounding hearts say, 'You will fall and land on your face.' Brave in our terrific tolerance for making a hundred mistakes. Day after day. We are brave in our persistence" (124).