“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver
I Meant to do my Work Today
“I meant to do my work today—
But a brown bird sang in the apple tree,
And a butterfly flitted across the field,
And all the leaves were calling me. ..”
Spring Migration
"Bird migration is the world's only true unifying natural phenomenon, stitching the continents together in a way that even the great weather systems fail to do."
- Scott Weidensaul