Thursday, February 4, 2010

and gathering swallows twitter in the skies

Prince Charles and Swallows


Swallows and swifts cannot nest on metal walls.
They cannot nest unless there are eaves. I think it is wrong.
It is immoral not to consider those other species that share this planet with us.
If the swallows and swifts stop coming here and nesting on the buildings that I love,
then there is no point to life.
Literally
– Prince Charles, from a speech given at the conference of the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment, February 2010.


True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings;
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
- Shakespeare

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