Christopher Cokinos famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I read, for the first time, of the Carolina Parakeet-a North American parakeet whose green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage appeared vivacious and altogether quite wonderful. As stunning as I found the hawk-chased conures, this bird astounded me even more. That the Carolina Parakeet was extinct simply added to my amazement.
-- Christopher Cokinos

#Yellow #Orange #Bird
That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet. The more I spoke of the bird, the more it seemed that, somehow, its existence had been a chimera. Admittedly, my survey was small and unscientific, but intelligent people who could reel off the names of various dinosaurs and identify sparrows at epic distances could not name the forgotten parakeet. I realized, forcefully, what I suppose I knew abstractly: Histories, like species, can go extinct.
-- Christopher Cokinos

#Distance #Intelligent #Epic
Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.
-- Christopher Cokinos

#Forget #Environment #Parakeets
Time is the deepest wilderness in which we wander.
-- Christopher Cokinos

#Wilderness #Wander
Curiosity began my journey, which led to regret, which brings me always to wonder and dedication.
-- Christopher Cokinos

#Regret #Journey #Dedication
This is the planet teeming, this place weâ€™ve come to and will leave tomorrow, deepened for the long return but not the wedded reach, the losing touch of self to self, contented more or less and known not nearly well enough.
-- Christopher Cokinos

#Self #Long #Return

My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes.
I love to shop. Clothes, electronics, and I love jewelry, especially yellow gold.
Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine.
Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it.
But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.
I drank lots of water and orange juice and took a multivitamin and iron supplement for breakfast, which was my regimen since Bill had come into my life and brought (along with love, adventure, and excitement) the constant threat of anemia.
The alarm rings 4:45, again at 5, but I wake up 4:30 naturally. Shower, shave, orange juice, perk my own coffee, hear the news, and the CBS car arrives 5:30.
The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

Christopher Cokinos famous quotes

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