“…the most beautiful sight in the world might be the birds taking over New York after the last man has run away to the hills. I will never live to see it, of course, but I know just how it will sound because I’ve lived up high and I know the sort of watch birds keep on us. I’ve listened to sparrows tapping tentatively on the outside of air conditioners when they thought no one was listening, and I know how other birds test the vibrations that come up to them through the television aerials.
‘Is he gone?’ they ask, and the vibrations come up from below, ‘ Not yet, not yet.’”
-Loren Eiseley
The Immense Journey
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