Falling Godwits Quotes by J.A. Baker

“Their rapid, shifting, dancing motion had been so deft and graceful that it was difficult to believe that hunger was the cause of it…

— J.A. Baker

“Dark against the bright rust of the dead leaves, an unfledged starling lay flabbily upon its back. It was loose-skinned, helpless, and frog-like. Its…

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“For an hour, till greyness covered all, the water shone like milk and mother-of-pearl. The sea breathed quietly, like a sleeping dog.”

— J.A. Baker

“Weak people revenge Strong people forgive Intelligent people ignore Anon.”

— J.A. Baker

“And for the partridge there was the sun suddenly shut out, the foul flailing blackness spreading wings above, the roar ceasing, the blazing knives…

— J.A. Baker

“The morning slept like a snake in the unaccustomed warmth.”

— J.A. Baker

“The unchecked growth of many summers, rising and declining, has lessened the penetration of the light in a way one rarely sees in farmland…

— J.A. Baker

“It is a good life, a seal's, here in these shallow waters. Like the lives of so many air and water creatures, it seems…

— J.A. Baker

“It is an effort to descend down the hand-holds of memory to the plain beneath, to recall the lost future, the dusk hovering above…

— J.A. Baker

“Acceptance is easier than resentment and anger. So is forgiveness.”

— J.A. Baker

“Bar-tailed godwits flying with curlew, with knot, with plover; seldom alone, seldom settling; snuffling eccentrics; long-nosed, loud-calling sea-rejoicers; their call a snorting, sneezing, mewing,…

— J.A. Baker

“The trees did not reflect the sun so much as glow from within, as though their bark was of parchment, a membrane through which…

— J.A. Baker