"Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct."

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Source : Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin

Christopher Cokinos

#Forget Quotes #Environment Quotes #Parakeets Quotes

“I want my writing to reach people. I don't write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to me. The marketing, segmenting etc., can be done by your publisher, not you.”
“A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.”

Source : Ernest Gellner (1959). “Words and Things: A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy and a Study in Ideology”
“Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.”
“Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don't have the resources.”

Source : "Bootsy Collins Brings Back The Funk". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 19, 2011.
“Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.”
“It really puzzles me to see ***** connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.”
“I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport for me to play.”
“Iâ€™m on top of my green like a lawn chair”

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