“I don’t need to know who the main characters are on social media and what everyone is saying about them, when I can instead spend an hour trying to find a rare sparrow.”
– British-American science writer and
An Immense World author
Ed Yong, celebrating birding as “immersion in the true reality” and an act of anti-capitalist resistance and self-care. “Pursuits like birding that foster joy, wonder and connection to place are not sidebars to a fulfilled life but their essence.”
