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Sy Montgomery QUOTES

101 " Love is not changed by death,” read the quote by British poet Edith Sitwell, “and nothing is lost, and in the end, all is harvest. "

― Sy Montgomery , How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

102 " most of my teachers have been animals. What have animals taught me about life? How to be a good creature. "

― Sy Montgomery , How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

103 " Then suddenly, we saw the voltmeter flash. “What’s going on?” I asked Scott. “I thought the eel was asleep.” “He is asleep,” Scott answered. And then we both realized what was happening. The eel was dreaming. "

― Sy Montgomery , The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness

104 " emotions aren’t confined to humans. A far worse mistake than misreading an animal’s emotions is to assume the animal hasn’t any emotions at all. "

― Sy Montgomery , How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

105 " They have the instinct to hunt and fly,” Nancy told me, “but how to hunt, they learn. It’s as if there’s some file folder in their heads about hunting success that they learn and never forget. "

― Sy Montgomery , Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur

106 " In 1820, two years before the Catholic Church began permitting the teaching of heliocentrism, "

― Sy Montgomery , The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019

107 " This is the gift great souls leave us when they die. They enlarge our hearts. They leave us a greater capacity for love. "

― Sy Montgomery , How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

108 " Dying did not bother her at all. We had spoken of this a little in the weeks before. For her, death was the portal to my father. She was eager to see him in heaven. Only one thing bothered her: she was worried, incredibly, that my father might not be there. "

― Sy Montgomery , The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood

109 " Pigeon racing was introduced to Taiwan from Japan at the turn of the last century; the country’s obsession with the sport really began only about forty years ago. "

― Sy Montgomery , Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur

110 " There he found his two youngest daughters unconscious. Wet, cold, and mesmerized with terror, the other members of the family had forgotten about the two girls and were actually sitting on them—they had nearly suffocated. "

― Sy Montgomery , Spell of the Tiger: The Man-Eaters of Sundarbans

111 " Although pigs are generally good-natured, more people are killed each year by pigs than by sharks. "

― Sy Montgomery , The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood

112 " With each generation, the amount of environmental degradation increases, but each generation takes that amount as the norm. "

― Sy Montgomery , The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019

113 " All you have to do is recognize them as teachers and be ready to hear their truths. "

― Sy Montgomery , How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

114 " patches, she is radiantly beautiful, the very picture of a healthy octopus and a diligent mother. She fluffs the "

― Sy Montgomery , The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness

115 " It was one of almost 20 global mass extinctions in the history of complex life, a list that includes 5 cataclysmic outliers, when the planet nearly died, "

― Sy Montgomery , The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019

116 " In the Devonian the moon was 10,000 miles closer, and summoned surging tides that flung fish onto tidal flats, daring them to walk. "

― Sy Montgomery , The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019

117 " Gr-EEN! YEL-low! OR-ange!” Griffin cries in quick succession. He’s just naming random colors—all except the right one. Except, of course, his words aren’t really chosen at random. “You notice he always says the name of a color,” Arlene points out. “He understands the category. "

― Sy Montgomery , Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur

118 " I get them—especially Girindra’s, since he mails them from Jamespur—their words are usually six to eight weeks old. While I read their words, I can’t even know for sure that the writers are still alive. "

― Sy Montgomery , Spell of the Tiger: The Man-Eaters of Sundarbans

119 " Together the pigeons and doves make up the family Columbidae, with three hundred species, from doves smaller than sparrows to the Victoria crowned pigeon, the size of a turkey.) "

― Sy Montgomery , Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur

120 " Soul is the fingerprint of God. "

― Sy Montgomery , The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness