J.A.Baker

The Peregrine: 50th Anniversary Edition

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  • Liamhas quoted3 years ago
    I think he regards me now as part hawk, part man; worth flying over to look at from time to time, but never wholly to be trusted; a crippled hawk, perhaps, unable to fly or to kill cleanly, uncertain and sour of temper.
  • Liamhas quoted3 years ago
    Wherever he goes, this winter, I will follow him. I will share the fear, and the exaltation, and the boredom, of the hunting life. I will follow him till my predatory human shape no longer darkens in terror the shaken kaleidoscope of colour that stains the deep fovea of his brilliant eye. My pagan head shall sink into the winter land, and there be purified.
  • Grisha Bardiurhas quoted4 years ago
    It is a country of elm and oak and thorn. People native to the clay are surly and slow to burn, morose and smouldering as alder wood, laconic, heavy as the land itself.
  • Grisha Bardiurhas quoted4 years ago
    Detailed descriptions of landscape are tedious. One part of England is superficially so much like another. The differences are subtle, coloured by love.
  • Grisha Bardiurhas quoted4 years ago
    One by one the calls of stone curlews rose in the long valleys of the downs, like fossil voices released from the strata of the chalk.
  • Grisha Bardiurhas quoted4 years ago
    In The Peregrine he wrote: ‘The hardest thing of all to see is what is really there.’
  • Grisha Bardiurhas quoted4 years ago
    This concentrated focus on one patch reminds us very much of the life and work of a historical writer such as Gilbert White, or perhaps the poet John Clare.
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