Author: John Burnside

Quotes

If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.

If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.

- John Burnside

Sadly, bird illustration has always been an under-appreciated art.

Sadly, bird illustration has always been an under-appreciated art.

- John Burnside

All my life, I have been a celebrant of Halloween. For me, it is the most important day of the year, the turning point in the old pagan calendar.

All my life, I have been a celebrant of Halloween. For me, it is the most important day of the year, the turning point in the old pagan calendar.

- John Burnside

What is essential - the one thing that could stop us being coarsened to other lives - is that we feel a great, living wave of animal life all around us, covering the earth.

What is essential - the one thing that could stop us being coarsened to other lives - is that we feel a great, living wave of animal life all around us, covering the earth.

- John Burnside

Once upon a time, forests were repositories of magic for the human race.

Once upon a time, forests were repositories of magic for the human race.

- John Burnside

I have never understood why so many gardeners favour straight lines and narrow, regulated borders; perhaps they think wildness could work only in a larger space.

I have never understood why so many gardeners favour straight lines and narrow, regulated borders; perhaps they think wildness could work only in a larger space.

- John Burnside

Sometimes, when the wind hits hard and icicles form on the sea cliffs, we can all come together - and at those times, we are at our best.

Sometimes, when the wind hits hard and icicles form on the sea cliffs, we can all come together - and at those times, we are at our best.

- John Burnside

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