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Helen Macdonald quotes: Consider this, and in our time As the hawk sees it, or the helmeted airman:

Consider this, and in our time As the hawk sees it, or the helmeted airman:

Helen Macdonald quotes: White had learned that going back in time was a way of fixing things; uncovering past traumas, revisiting them and defusing their power.

White had learned that going back in time was a way of fixing things; uncovering past traumas, revisiting them and defusing their power.

Helen Macdonald quotes: The hawk had filled the house with wildness as a bowl of lilies fills a house with scent.

The hawk had filled the house with wildness as a bowl of lilies fills a house with scent.

Helen Macdonald quotes: The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still.

The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still.

Helen Macdonald quotes: The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life.

The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life.

Helen Macdonald quotes: For a boy who always felt imperilled, that pitch-black cave was a refuge, and he returned to it in his imagination again and again.

For a boy who always felt imperilled, that pitch-black cave was a refuge, and he returned to it in his imagination again and again.

Helen Macdonald quotes: The Once and Future King. By T. H. White,

The Once and Future King. By T. H. White,

Helen Macdonald quotes: writing those lines in his small kitchen, the light wet on the oilskin tablecloth, the night close against the window.

writing those lines in his small kitchen, the light wet on the oilskin tablecloth, the night close against the window.

Helen Macdonald quotes: And now, holding the card in my hands and feeling its edges, all the grief had turned into something different. It was simply love.

And now, holding the card in my hands and feeling its edges, all the grief had turned into something different. It was simply love.

Helen Macdonald quotes: Deep in the muddled darkness six copper pheasant feathers glowed in a cradle of blackthorn.

Deep in the muddled darkness six copper pheasant feathers glowed in a cradle of blackthorn.

Helen Macdonald quotes: Sometimes a reckoning comes of all the lives we have lost, and sometimes we take it upon ourselves to burn them to ashes.

Sometimes a reckoning comes of all the lives we have lost, and sometimes we take it upon ourselves to burn them to ashes.

Helen Macdonald quotes: The suffering of his body is as naught to the joy of being free from the pain of being seen.

The suffering of his body is as naught to the joy of being free from the pain of being seen.

Helen Macdonald quotes: Falling in love is a desolating experience, but not when it is with a countryside.

Falling in love is a desolating experience, but not when it is with a countryside.

Helen Macdonald quotes: Goshawks are nervous because they live life ten times faster than we do, and they react to stimuli literally without thinking.

Goshawks are nervous because they live life ten times faster than we do, and they react to stimuli literally without thinking.

Helen Macdonald quotes: it seems very extraordinary that the complex psychology of a human being can be taught with a stick.

it seems very extraordinary that the complex psychology of a human being can be taught with a stick.

Helen Macdonald quotes: There was nothing that was such a salve to my grieving heart as the hawk returning.

There was nothing that was such a salve to my grieving heart as the hawk returning.

Helen Macdonald quotes: His mother lavished attention on her dogs and her husband had them shot. She lavished attention on the boy and the boy was convinced he'd be next.

His mother lavished attention on her dogs and her husband had them shot. She lavished attention on the boy and the boy was convinced he'd be next.

Helen Macdonald quotes: Vast flocks of fieldfares netted the sky, turning it to something strangely like a sixteenth-century sleeve sewn with pearls.

Vast flocks of fieldfares netted the sky, turning it to something strangely like a sixteenth-century sleeve sewn with pearls.

Helen Macdonald quotes: This region was the centre of the flint industry in Neolithic times. And later, it became famous for rabbits farmed for meat and felt.

This region was the centre of the flint industry in Neolithic times. And later, it became famous for rabbits farmed for meat and felt.

Helen Macdonald quotes: Hands are for other human hands to hold.

Hands are for other human hands to hold.

Helen Macdonald quotes: I know how to do this, I thought. I am good, at least, at this. I know all the steps to this dance

I know how to do this, I thought. I am good, at least, at this. I know all the steps to this dance

Helen Macdonald quotes: Like a good academic, I thought books were for answers.

Like a good academic, I thought books were for answers.

Helen Macdonald quotes: Looking for goshwawks is like looking for grace: it comes, but not often, and you don't get to say when or how.

Looking for goshwawks is like looking for grace: it comes, but not often, and you don't get to say when or how.

Helen Macdonald quotes: I've learned how you feel more human once you have known, even in your imagination, what it is like to be not.

I've learned how you feel more human once you have known, even in your imagination, what it is like to be not.

Helen Macdonald quotes: Wild things are made from human histories.

Wild things are made from human histories.

Helen Macdonald quotes: What makes you a chaffinch?

What makes you a chaffinch?

Helen Macdonald quotes: war was the fault of the 'masters of men, everywhere, who subconsciously thrust others into suffering in order to advance their own powers'.28

war was the fault of the 'masters of men, everywhere, who subconsciously thrust others into suffering in order to advance their own powers'.28

Helen Macdonald quotes: I have learned, too, the danger that comes in mistaking the wildness we give a thing for the wildness that animates

I have learned, too, the danger that comes in mistaking the wildness we give a thing for the wildness that animates

Helen Macdonald quotes: Stimulus: opera. Response: kill.

Stimulus: opera. Response: kill.

Helen Macdonald quotes: We carry the lives we've imagined as we carry the lives we have, and sometimes a reckoning comes of all the lives we have lost.

We carry the lives we've imagined as we carry the lives we have, and sometimes a reckoning comes of all the lives we have lost.

Helen Macdonald quotes: the austringer, the solitary trainer of goshawks and sparrowhawks, has had a pretty terrible press.

the austringer, the solitary trainer of goshawks and sparrowhawks, has had a pretty terrible press.

Helen Macdonald quotes: It must have been like death,'3 he wrote, 'the thing which we can never know beforehand.

It must have been like death,'3 he wrote, 'the thing which we can never know beforehand.

Helen Macdonald quotes: She is unsure about dogs. Big dogs, that is. Small dogs fascinate her for other reasons.

She is unsure about dogs. Big dogs, that is. Small dogs fascinate her for other reasons.

Helen Macdonald quotes: I learned that to harden your heart was not the same as not caring.

I learned that to harden your heart was not the same as not caring.

Helen Macdonald quotes: No war can ever be just air.

No war can ever be just air.

Helen Macdonald quotes: On the way home I felt a great and simple sadness. I missed my dad. I missed him very much.

On the way home I felt a great and simple sadness. I missed my dad. I missed him very much.

Helen Macdonald quotes: When you are broken, you run. But you don't always run away. Sometimes, helplessly, you run towards.

When you are broken, you run. But you don't always run away. Sometimes, helplessly, you run towards.