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H is for Hawk

by Helen Macdonald

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"She is so enamoured with the hawk, human company becomes almost intolerable. She is becoming part of the hawks personality as a way of overcoming her grief." — Mar 07, 2026 05:07AM

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“But there are no new thoughts. They’re just old thoughts born into new moments – and in these moments is the thought: without that earth we are all finished. We couldn’t survive a second without its grace, we are sailors on a ship on a deep, dark unswimmable sea.”
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