Every species has its own tempo of sound-making through the year, tuned to the particularities of food plants and insects, refined by local weather.
David George Haskell
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- The Voices of Birds and the Language of Belonging (2019); Exact wording and attribution checked. Species refers to birds in this passage, whose voices connect local ecology and seasonal rhythms.
- The Voices of Birds and the Language of Belonging (2019)
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