“Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.”
Source: Prodigal Summer
“A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.”
—
Amit Ray
World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird (2014) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KkYtBgAAQBAJ,
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