Quotes by : Helen Macdonald

Shocking loss isn't to be shared, no matter how hard you try.

The rarer they get, the fewer meanings animals can have. Eventually rarity is all they are made of. The....

It struck me then that perhaps the bareness and wrongness of the world was an illusion; that things might....

Being a novice is safe. When you are learning how to do something, you do not have to worry about whether....

On the Ridgeway path, aged nine or ten, was where for the first time I realized the power a person might....

Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all affliction,’ wrote John Muir. ‘Earth hath....

Gos was still out there in the forest, the dark forest to which all things lost must go. I'd wanted to....

In two months, I think, my college job will end. In two months I will have no office, no college, no....

I held the cardboard and felt its scissor-cut edge. And for the first time I understood the shape of....

The archaeology of grief is not ordered. It is more like earth under a spade, turning up things you had....