Free Vintage Nature Illustration: Hummingbird Parents with Eggs at their Nest 1

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.
― Ransom Riggs

The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.
― Rebecca Solnit

I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.
― Mitch Albom

19th century illustration of both male and female hummingbirds perched around their nest in the branches of a flowering vine. There is a clutch of eggs resting in the depths of the nest, waiting to be hatched. 8” x 11” @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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