The Golden Mole Quotes

“We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asleep, and the same the next day, and the next. Each single seahorse contains enough wonder to knock the whole of humanity off its feet, if we would but pay attention.”
― Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

“We are Noah's Ark in reverse: it is as if we are raging through the bowels of the boat, setting fire to the stables, poisoning the water. Faced with such destruction at such pace, acquiescence becomes impossible. The time to fight, with all our ingenuity and tenacity and love and fury, is now.”
― Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

“The swift is sky-suited like no other bird. Weighing less than a hen's egg, with wings like a scythe and a tail like a fork, it eats and sleeps on the wing. They gather nesting material only from what's in the air, which means that there have been accounts of still-flapping butterflies wedged in among the leaves and twigs. They mate in brief mid-sky collisions, the only birds to do so, and to wash they hunt down clouds and fly through gentle rain, slowly, wings outstretched.”
― Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

“These things - everlasting flight, a self-galvanising heart, a creature who learns names in the womb - sound like fables we offer children. But it's only that the Earth is so various and so startling that our capacity for wonder, huge as it is, can barely skim the edges of the truth.”
― Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure