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> [“Wild things are made from human histories.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-macdonald/wild-things-are-made-from-human-histories/)

[Helen Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-macdonald/)

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## More by Helen Macdonald

> [“And I was sure it was the drink that irrigated White’s self-sabotage, for it is the common trait of alcoholics to make plans and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-macdonald/and-i-was-sure-it-was-the-drink-that-irrigated-white-s-self-sabotage/)

[Helen Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-macdonald/)

> [“Wild things are made from human histories.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-macdonald/wild-things-are-made-from-human-histories/)

[Helen Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-macdonald/)

> [“White called Prisonface to life in order that he should suffer, be punished, mocked, reduced to rags and die.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-macdonald/white-called-prisonface-to-life-in-order-that-he-should-suffer-be/)

[Helen Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-macdonald/)

> [“No war can ever be just air.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-macdonald/no-war-can-ever-be-just-air/)

[Helen Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-macdonald/)

> [“You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-macdonald/you-see-that-life-will-become-a-thing-made-of-holes-absences-losses/)

[Helen Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-macdonald/)

> [“And when I look again she seems neither bird nor reptile, but a creature shaped by a million years of evolution for a life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-macdonald/and-when-i-look-again-she-seems-neither-bird-nor-reptile-but-a/)

[Helen Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-macdonald/)

> [“Riding out with the Old Surrey and Burstow Hunt, White recorded the first time he saw a kill with distanced fascination. The fox was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-macdonald/riding-out-with-the-old-surrey-and-burstow-hunt-white-recorded-the/)

[Helen Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-macdonald/)

> [“He did all the right things: flew aeroplanes, shot, fished for salmon, hunted; and even better, all the wrong things: kept grass snakes in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-macdonald/he-did-all-the-right-things-flew-aeroplanes-shot-fished-for-salmon/)

[Helen Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-macdonald/)

> [“I couldn't keep the dimensions of my car in my head. Or my own, for I kept having accidents. I cracked cups. I dropped…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-macdonald/i-couldn-t-keep-the-dimensions-of-my-car-in-my-head-or-my-own-for-i/)

[Helen Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-macdonald/)

> [“He was a complicated man, and an unhappy one. But he knew also that the world was full of simple miracles.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-macdonald/he-was-a-complicated-man-and-an-unhappy-one-but-he-knew-also-that-the/)

[Helen Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-macdonald/)

> [“It wasn't just that I saw in his book, reflected backwards and dimly, my own retreat into wildness. It was this: of all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-macdonald/it-wasn-t-just-that-i-saw-in-his-book-reflected-backwards-and-dimly/)

[Helen Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-macdonald/)

> [“and it was there, standing on the edge of a village playing field, that I gratefully stepped into novicehood again, as if I had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-macdonald/and-it-was-there-standing-on-the-edge-of-a-village-playing-field-that/)

[Helen Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-macdonald/)

> [“She breathes hot hawk breath in my face.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-macdonald/she-breathes-hot-hawk-breath-in-my-face/)

[Helen Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-macdonald/)

> [“I look. There it is. I feel it. The insistent pull to the heart that the hawk brings, that very old longing of mine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-macdonald/i-look-there-it-is-i-feel-it-the-insistent-pull-to-the-heart-that-the/)

[Helen MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-macdonald/)

> [“History and hawks and hoods and the implications of taking something's sight away to calm it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-macdonald/history-and-hawks-and-hoods-and-the-implications-of-taking-something/)

[Helen Macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-macdonald/)

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