Environment Quote by Christopher Cokinos

That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina…

— Christopher Cokinos

I read, for the first time, of the Carolina Parakeet-a North American parakeet whose green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage appeared vivacious and altogether quite…

— Christopher Cokinos

My ex-girlfriend owned a parakeet…oh my god, that f**king thing would never shut up. But the bird was cool.

— Anthony Jeselnik

I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.

— Bill Viola

For most of my life, I didn't pay attention to birds.

— Jonathan Franzen

You completely rediscovered & relived everything to do with wildlife.

— Terri Irwin

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

— Sara Zarr

That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be…

— Joseph Roth

The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.

— Guy Davenport

Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such…

— Jonathan Franzen

The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I grew up with two different parakeets - one that lived for five years, and one that lived for 13 years - so I…

— Jim Parsons