Celia C
@celiacallus.bsky.social
I love books and animals, and people who love both
I'm no photographer but I like this picture of a brooding pigeon with her mate keeping a watchful eye close by.
May 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I'm no photographer but I like this picture of a brooding pigeon with her mate keeping a watchful eye close by.
The inward gates of a bird are always open.
It does not know how to shut them.
That is the secret of its song...
Hugh MacDiarmid
It does not know how to shut them.
That is the secret of its song...
Hugh MacDiarmid
May 17, 2025 at 4:43 AM
The inward gates of a bird are always open.
It does not know how to shut them.
That is the secret of its song...
Hugh MacDiarmid
It does not know how to shut them.
That is the secret of its song...
Hugh MacDiarmid
As between clear blue and cloud,
Between haystack and sunset sky,
Between oak tree and slated roof,
I had my existence. I was there.
Me in place and the place in me.
Seamus Heaney
Between haystack and sunset sky,
Between oak tree and slated roof,
I had my existence. I was there.
Me in place and the place in me.
Seamus Heaney
April 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
As between clear blue and cloud,
Between haystack and sunset sky,
Between oak tree and slated roof,
I had my existence. I was there.
Me in place and the place in me.
Seamus Heaney
Between haystack and sunset sky,
Between oak tree and slated roof,
I had my existence. I was there.
Me in place and the place in me.
Seamus Heaney
I share time with birds because they let me depart from myself while making me feel at home in time passing.
Tim Dee
Tim Dee
March 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I share time with birds because they let me depart from myself while making me feel at home in time passing.
Tim Dee
Tim Dee
Help a novice birder out. Bird ID? In Malta (Mediterranean)
March 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Help a novice birder out. Bird ID? In Malta (Mediterranean)
But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson
February 22, 2025 at 7:24 AM
But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson
Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it.
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
February 3, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it.
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Nature is amazing
NATURE'S GYRO
A kingfisher's head stays perfectly still as its perch sways in the breeze. Like a built-in stabilizer, this ability ensures precise fishing.
(🎥BBC Earth)
A kingfisher's head stays perfectly still as its perch sways in the breeze. Like a built-in stabilizer, this ability ensures precise fishing.
(🎥BBC Earth)
January 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Nature is amazing
On travel...
One takes off to land in oneself.
Andrés Neuman
One takes off to land in oneself.
Andrés Neuman
January 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
On travel...
One takes off to land in oneself.
Andrés Neuman
One takes off to land in oneself.
Andrés Neuman
Reposted by Celia C
Reposted by Celia C
Quote from pioneer animal rights advocate, author, professor; Tom Regan
#AnimalRights #animals #sentience #AnimalSentience #AnimalExploitation #veganism
#AnimalRights #animals #sentience #AnimalSentience #AnimalExploitation #veganism
December 6, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Quote from pioneer animal rights advocate, author, professor; Tom Regan
#AnimalRights #animals #sentience #AnimalSentience #AnimalExploitation #veganism
#AnimalRights #animals #sentience #AnimalSentience #AnimalExploitation #veganism
Reposted by Celia C
Eastern Bluebird
Softly beauty comes to us.
It often gently whispers.
We have to move past the noise
In order to hear its calm reassurance...
Softly beauty comes to us.
It often gently whispers.
We have to move past the noise
In order to hear its calm reassurance...
January 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Eastern Bluebird
Softly beauty comes to us.
It often gently whispers.
We have to move past the noise
In order to hear its calm reassurance...
Softly beauty comes to us.
It often gently whispers.
We have to move past the noise
In order to hear its calm reassurance...
Reposted by Celia C
In 2023 at least 960 #birds died in one day due to window collisions at McCormick Place in #Chicago. After applying bird-friendly window treatments, there were just 18 deaths all last fall. Further proof these simple changes work, and work well! It's time communities start making this a requirement.
Bird deaths plummet at McCormick Place Lakeside Center after safety film installed
Crash fatalities down more than 90% this fall with 18 deaths compared to 1,280 deaths in the fall of 2023, Field Museum expert says.
www.chicagotribune.com
January 14, 2025 at 4:18 AM
In 2023 at least 960 #birds died in one day due to window collisions at McCormick Place in #Chicago. After applying bird-friendly window treatments, there were just 18 deaths all last fall. Further proof these simple changes work, and work well! It's time communities start making this a requirement.
We have so much to answer for.
"There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery." Charles Darwin.
January 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
We have so much to answer for.
This talk of making peace with it. Of feeling it and then finding a way through. Of closure. It's all nonsense.
Here is what no one told me about #grief: you inhabit it like a skin. Everywhere you go, you wear grief under your clothes. Everything you see, you see through it, like a film.
M. Renkl
Here is what no one told me about #grief: you inhabit it like a skin. Everywhere you go, you wear grief under your clothes. Everything you see, you see through it, like a film.
M. Renkl
January 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This talk of making peace with it. Of feeling it and then finding a way through. Of closure. It's all nonsense.
Here is what no one told me about #grief: you inhabit it like a skin. Everywhere you go, you wear grief under your clothes. Everything you see, you see through it, like a film.
M. Renkl
Here is what no one told me about #grief: you inhabit it like a skin. Everywhere you go, you wear grief under your clothes. Everything you see, you see through it, like a film.
M. Renkl
A few countries are taking brave, pioneering steps towards radically transforming the lives of animals by representing them in legislation. The EU should add its endorsement as a matter of urgency. #EndTheCageAge #animalwelfare #DelivertheProposal
Tomorrow, the @ec.europa.eu will make a statement about its plans to include the revision of #animalwelfare legislation in its 2025 work programme.
Reshare to call on the Commission to deliver ALL the missing proposals! 🙏
#EndTheCageAge #DelivertheProposal
Reshare to call on the Commission to deliver ALL the missing proposals! 🙏
#EndTheCageAge #DelivertheProposal
December 18, 2024 at 10:51 AM
A few countries are taking brave, pioneering steps towards radically transforming the lives of animals by representing them in legislation. The EU should add its endorsement as a matter of urgency. #EndTheCageAge #animalwelfare #DelivertheProposal
I do not believe in, never have believed in, any “transcendental” spirit above Nature; but there is a spirit in Nature, a cosmogenic spirit, which commands my respect and love; and it is this, perhaps most deeply, which serves to “explain” life, give it “meaning.
Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks
November 20, 2024 at 5:35 PM
I do not believe in, never have believed in, any “transcendental” spirit above Nature; but there is a spirit in Nature, a cosmogenic spirit, which commands my respect and love; and it is this, perhaps most deeply, which serves to “explain” life, give it “meaning.
Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks
'Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of reality's fullness.'
Ed Yong, An Immense World
Ed Yong, An Immense World
November 18, 2024 at 12:56 PM
'Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of reality's fullness.'
Ed Yong, An Immense World
Ed Yong, An Immense World
I'm finding it so difficult to delete my X account. I've been on it since 2009 and it was the source of so much beauty and taught me so much. It's breaking my heart but I cannot support what it has become.
November 13, 2024 at 1:34 PM
I'm finding it so difficult to delete my X account. I've been on it since 2009 and it was the source of so much beauty and taught me so much. It's breaking my heart but I cannot support what it has become.
‘What impresses me about animals, whether domesticated or undomesticated, is the degree of their fittedness to the world. They’ve been here a lot longer than our own species, and they have learned to accommodate with power and grace, the world.’
Rick Bass
Rick Bass
November 9, 2024 at 6:45 PM
‘What impresses me about animals, whether domesticated or undomesticated, is the degree of their fittedness to the world. They’ve been here a lot longer than our own species, and they have learned to accommodate with power and grace, the world.’
Rick Bass
Rick Bass
On nature writing as a marginal literature
‘…nature writing is literature at its most essential. Its tenets are that humans are biological; that we are dependent on the earth, that places are vital to our psyches, and that humans have volumes to learn from nature.’
Janisse Ray
‘…nature writing is literature at its most essential. Its tenets are that humans are biological; that we are dependent on the earth, that places are vital to our psyches, and that humans have volumes to learn from nature.’
Janisse Ray
November 9, 2024 at 6:39 PM
On nature writing as a marginal literature
‘…nature writing is literature at its most essential. Its tenets are that humans are biological; that we are dependent on the earth, that places are vital to our psyches, and that humans have volumes to learn from nature.’
Janisse Ray
‘…nature writing is literature at its most essential. Its tenets are that humans are biological; that we are dependent on the earth, that places are vital to our psyches, and that humans have volumes to learn from nature.’
Janisse Ray
I should get an 'I ❤️ Lydia Davis' t-shirt
February 17, 2024 at 2:17 PM
I should get an 'I ❤️ Lydia Davis' t-shirt