Birds and Books

aseaofquotes:

Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ”

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Henry David Thoreau (via ruineshumaines)

(Source: showslow, via quote-book)

wavesandwhimsy:

Day 1

mucholderthen:

Grey Heron
19th century India
Watercolor on paper

For the British men and women who went to India, the study of natural history was both scientific inquiry and fashionable pastime. They trained local artists, often skilled court painters seeking new patronage, to record the country’s flora and fauna with scientific precision.

(South Asian Art)

(via cofftea)

fairy-wren:

Western Yellow Wagtail. Photo by kivza

mucholderthen:

Paul Jacoulet (1902-1960)
Les Paradisiers | Mènado, Célèbes
(The birds of paradise, Menado, Celebes)

(Christie’s)

So. Much. Physics. Ugh. I just want gulls.

mucholderthen:

Katsushika Hokusai
Japanese, 1760–1849

Cranes by the Shore
Illustration for The Leg Shell (Ashigai), from the series “A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)”, 1821

Color woodblock print with metallic pigments; surimono shikishiban

[ via thejapanesewoodblock ]

“

He was as much himself again as he ever would be, and yet that “self” would never be the same again for now he knew the meaning of fear as it defines itself in its most violent form, that is, fear of the death of the beloved, of the loss of the beloved, of the loss of love. It was the beginning of an anxiety that would never end, except with the deaths of either or both; and anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. ”

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Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter (7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992)

(Source: buxombibliophile, via bookishbiologist)