“Our bodies evolved not for cocktail party conversation but rather to harvest #sounds from wild creatures. These are the aural signals on which our #species’ success depended: #Birds chatting, unconcerned. Herds gathering. #Corvids flocking.” #quote #books #nature
Tag Archives: birds
Comforting Thought: Garden Warblers Sing For Their Own Enjoyment
“Many bird species are not melodic combatants but lone dreamers enveloping themselves in a veil of song,” writes Andreas Weber. “Individuals of species like the garden warbler chatter in a special species-specific low-voice melody only when they are alone and undisturbed. They are talking to themselves, delicate and melodious and totally free of utility.” ThirdContinue reading “Comforting Thought: Garden Warblers Sing For Their Own Enjoyment”
Australia: Twenty Seven Summer Views
I enjoy taking photos, even though I mostly never have a good camera with me and so I need to capture moments on my Samsung. I enjoy capturing these moments forever in time. This reminds me of how I felt at the moment of taking the picture and the. So here are some photos I’veContinue reading “Australia: Twenty Seven Summer Views”
Comforting thought: The silence of the bird and the lily by Søren Kierkegaard
Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) implored people to learn from the silence of the lily and the bird. In other words to learn to refrain from speaking. He believed that we should learn this because we humans possess the power of speech and so we should learn the art of silence. According to Kierkegaard ourContinue reading “Comforting thought: The silence of the bird and the lily by Søren Kierkegaard”
Beach walking and native birds
What do you love about where you live? I love living right next to the beach and being able to walk there each day. There are egrets, rosellas, cocakatoos, gallahs, Australian crows, rainbow lorikeets, tawny frogmouths, dusky moorhens, superb fairy wrens. All flitter and flirt through the brush and low lying bushes near the beach withContinue reading “Beach walking and native birds”
Comforting Thought: The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
— Wendell Berry
The quirky origins of Australia’s native animal names
In Australia there are more than 250 Indigenous languages including around 800 dialects. Languages are living things that connect people to Country, culture and ancestors. Many words for Australian native animals come from these languages. ‘Keriba gesep agiakar dikwarda keriba mir. Ableglam keriba Mir pako Tonar nole atakemurkak.’ — The land actually gave birth toContinue reading “The quirky origins of Australia’s native animal names”
Comforting Thought: Sunrise by Mary Oliver
“I thought how the sun blazes for everyone just so joyfully as it rises
under the lashes of my own eyes, and I thought I am so many!” – Sunrise by Mary Oliver
Comforting Thought: When Death Comes by Mary Oliver
“When it’s over I want to say: all my life, I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.” – When Death Comes by Mary Oliver.
Comforting Thought: The Summer’s Day by Mary Oliver
“Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” -The Summer Day by Mary Oliver.
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