Generally birding feels much less like an escape — not from the birds, clearly, however from the species that invented noise air pollution, on-line feedback, and motivational hashtags. An evolutionary flawed flip? I believe so. Listed below are ten reminders of why birds are higher than people.
They Don’t Want Motivation Quotes.
They get up, sing, and get issues achieved — no “Dwell, Chuckle, Love” required.
They Share With out Oversharing.
A chicken would possibly warn its flock a couple of hawk, but it surely doesn’t put up twelve updates about its lunch.
They Don’t Faux to Be Smarter Than They Are.
Even the cleverest crow isn’t making an attempt to launch a cryptocurrency trade.
They Have Model With out Making an attempt.
Even the drabbest sparrow seems coordinated. People invented Crocs.
They Don’t Want Wi-Fi.
They navigate continents utilizing magnetic fields, stars, and reminiscence. We lose sign in parking garages.
They Don’t Want Perception Programs to Behave Decently.
No commandments, no holy books — and but not a single campaign or bloodbath.
They Don’t Declare to Love Nature Whereas Destroying It.
Birds don’t attend “eco-retreats” reachable solely by long-haul flights.
They Don’t Want Hope to Hold Going.
People write motivational books about resilience; birds endure the storm and transfer on.
They Don’t Invent Synthetic Intelligence.
They have already got the pure form.
They Don’t Name Themselves Distinctive.
They only are — with out the press releases, TED talks, or delusions of grandeur.
I, for one, root for them, not my group.
Photograph: Pied Currawong, Brisbane space, Australia, December 2016
