Bend words. Stretch them, squash them, mash them up, fold them. Turn them over or swing them upside down. Make up new… — Kyo Maclear Ancient 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,… — Kyo Maclear Children 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… — Kyo Maclear Birds 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… — Kyo Maclear Chronic illness 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… — Kyo Maclear Deadline 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… — Kyo Maclear Culture 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… — Kyo Maclear Books 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… — Kyo Maclear Birds 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… — Kyo Maclear Arms 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… — Kyo Maclear Dealing with stress Copy Share Image
“One day my sister Virginia woke up feeling wolfish. She made wolf SOUNDS and did strange things...” — Kyo Maclear Picture books 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… — Kyo Maclear Book 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.… — Kyo Maclear Grief 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.… — Kyo Maclear Buckingham palace 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… — Kyo Maclear Ambition Copy Share Image
I wonder what kind of environmental consciousness is to be developed in a family or a community where nature is seen as… — Kyo Maclear Community Copy Share Image
“Faces have a near-unwatchable intimacy, particularly in a world in which everything perishes in the end. It is difficult to look as… — Kyo Maclear Intimacy Copy Share Image
“Now when I hear birdsong, I feel an entry to that understory. When I am feeling too squeezed on the ground, exhausted… — Kyo Maclear Birds Copy Share Image
“His approach, enjoying small spots of nature every day rather than epic versions of wilderness and escape, made sense to me. Big… — Kyo Maclear City parks Copy Share Image
I think I had a lot of small epiphanies along the way. What I really got out of the experience is a… — Kyo Maclear Epiphany Copy Share Image
If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees… — Kyo Maclear Beautiful 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… — Kyo Maclear Art Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is a beautiful sideways and sometimes upward spiral, but a tower of appeasement will not feed you. Merit badges will teach… — Kyo Maclear Knowledge Copy Share Image
“I like smallness. I like the perverse audacity of someone aiming tiny.” — Kyo Maclear Smallness Copy Share Image
“Later I will tell him: our courage comes out in different ways. We are brave in our bold dreams but also in… — Kyo Maclear Courage Copy Share Image
