Quotes About Goshawks

Goshawks are things of death and blood and gore, but they are not excuses for atrocities. Their inhumanity is to be treasured because what they do has nothing to do with us at all.

the austringer, the solitary trainer of goshawks and sparrowhawks, has had a pretty terrible press.

Goshawks are nervous because they live life ten times faster than we do, and they react to stimuli literally without thinking.

Elusive, spectacular, utterly at home, the fact of these British goshawks makes me happy. Their existence gives the lie to the thought that the wild is always something untouched by human hearts and hands. The wild can be human work.