“If the wind is going the right way, some birds like to spread their wings and hang in the air, appearing not to move a bit. It is a subtle skill, to remain appreciably steady amid the forces of drift… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
“The birders I encountered in books and in the world shared little in common except this simple secret: if you listen to birds, every day will have a song in it.” — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
Bend words. Stretch them, squash them, mash them up, fold them. Turn them over or swing them upside down. Make up new words. Leave… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
“But it is not glorious lulls that concern me. It is the lulls that have no velocity, that offer no structured reassurance, that bloom… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
“I like the idea of songs sung by those without big voices. You know, small birdsongs that rise above the noise of the city.” — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
“Waiting for a late friend. Waiting in line at the movies. Waiting for the phone to ring. Waiting for the mail. Waiting at the… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
The one thing I'd thought of is that we spend most of our lives in survival time. There's a sense of hanging off the… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to whisper to be heard. Our culture is very much one of "bigging it up," always upping the noise level in… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
“Books have given me great stores of happiness, but if I am honest with myself I can see they have also taken something away.… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
“If the wind is going the right way, some birds like to spread their wings and hang in the air, appearing not to move… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
You can make change or it can make YOU. Change is to keep us on our toes. Change is to make us look more… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
One thing that stress does is make us ungenerous, so we constrict, we look after our own. We get solipsistic and go into our… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
“One day my sister Virginia woke up feeling wolfish. She made wolf SOUNDS and did strange things...” — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
I wanted to talk about certain things in a way that I hadn't seen them talked about. There is vast literature about caring for… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
“It is possible too that I was experiencing something known as "anticipatory grief," the mourning that occurs before a certain loss. Anticipatory. Expectatory. Trepidatory.… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
“The fog turned a strange yellow, then orange, then black. The gilded winged statue Victory at Buckingham Palace retreated into mist. St. Paul's was… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
“If I am guilty of hiding among tinier people in a tinier parallel world, it is because I am searching for other models of… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
