Sparrow Envy Quotes

“The hardest ground to plow was living fully without worry, not in the past gone on or future yet to come—but in the present hardpan now.”
― J. Drew Lanham, Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts

“It’s not so much about identifying what birds are, as feeling who birds are. Head nods, jaw drops, smiles, tears and abject adoration, are all “feel marks” for identifying the wood thrush—a brown-backed, forest-singing soul seldom seen, but more often heard and felt deeply. As this bird pumped its heart out in auto three-part harmony, the one inside my own chest stopped beating for a while.”
― J. Drew Lanham, Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts