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Dawn Chorus: Reflections for 2023 [1]

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Date: 2023-12-31  

Many people use the New Year to make new resolutions to improve their life. I also use the last days of the current year to reflect on what I have experienced, try to learn what I would like to continue and what I would like to let go. I have included thoughts from others between each photo that we may all reflect on.

Male Ring-necked Duck.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin

Female Ring-necked Duck

It is not by muscle, speed or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character and judgment. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Pied-billed Grebe

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. Peter Drucker

Hooded Merganser male

Life is only a reflection of what we allow ourselves to see. Unknown

American Wigeon male

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville

Wood Duck pair.

By three methods we may learn wisdom. first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; third, by experience which is the bitterest. Confucius

Wood Duck male.

Live in such a way that if someone were to speak badly of you no one would believe it. Anon.

Green Heron

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. Lao Tsu

Pied-billed Grebe

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seen to have. Thomas Jefferson

Northern Shoveler

If you wish to be a warrior, prepare yourself to be broken, if you wish to be an explorer prepare to get lost and if you wish to be a lover prepare to be both. Daniel Saint

Hooded Merganser female

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson

Pied-billed Gebe

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi

Green Heron

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Hooded Merganser female blocking the male behind her.

You matter. Anon.

Your year is worth reflection. Please share with us any photo(s) or words of reflection — or just post a comment. Here’s looking forward to 2024, and creating new reflections.

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