The Seattle Public Library is partnering with the Seward Park Audubon Center for Bird Week, April 23-30, in celebration of the center’s tenth anniversary and the National Audubon Society’s 2018 Year of the Bird.
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush. Don’t you think our lush planet is worth far more than two desolate balls of dust light years away? This good earth is our bird in the hand.
Birds have, long, been our inspiration. They have served as an impetus to move beyond earthly limitations. If they can take to air, plumb watery depths and strut around the breadth and width of this earth like they own it, so can we!
We’ve followed their example in so many ways. We feather our nests, warn our children not to count their chickens before they hatch, put feathers in our caps and flock together. Continue reading “Bird Week: Birds Ground Us — The Earth and Environmental Equity”