Quotes by : Helen Macdonald

When I was an undergraduate we were told that history had ended, and we all believed it. When the Berlin....

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

All of those thousands upon thousands of photographs my father had taken. Think of them instead. Each....

What makes you a chaffinch?

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

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....

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

...that when you wanted to see something very badly,sometimes you had to stay still,stay in the same....

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