Angelo Caserta - Director of BirdLife Europe & Central Asia
It’s “a cold spring” wrote Elizabeth Bishop, “the violet was flawed on the lawn. For two weeks or more the trees hesitated; the little leaves waited, carefully indicating their characteristics.” It feels almost as if these Pulitzer prize-winning words, written back in 1956 and on the other side of the great Atlantic, have somehow lifted off the pages, travelled over land, sea and time and fallen down over our old continent like a touch of frost.
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