Birds in flight, claims the architect Vincenzo Volentieri, are not between places, they carry their places with them. We never wonder where they live: they are at home in the sky, in flight. Flight is their way of being in the world.
–Geoff Dyer
Found on P. 80 of Pico Iyer’s The Global Soul, a book that has fast become my favorite thing, mostly because my head didn’t stop nodding the entire time I was reading it.

