Top 50 Kira Jane Buxton Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “When you have the power to stand up to oppression, you must.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

2. “Butterflies live short lives because they have mastered the art of living. They serve to pass it on with luminous bursts of joy, bright flickers from the other side.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

3. “All the winged, even fungus gnats, know that you cannot fly if you’re carrying too much weight with you. It’s a well-known adage, actually: “The light of heart is free to fly.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

4. “Crows are harbingers of death and omens, good and bad, according to Big Jim according to Google. Midnight-winged tricksters associated with mystery, the occult, the unknown. The netherworld, wherever it is- Portland? We make people think of the deceased and super angsty poetry. Admittedly we don’t help the cause when we happily dine on fish guts in a landfill, buy hey ho.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

5. “When you love someone with your soul, they never really leave you; they are hemmed into your heart.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

6. “And everyone on earth knows if you have the respect of a cat it means your soul is worth being around.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

7. “The light of heart is free to fly.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

8. “A creature can be heartbreakingly powerful and loving while also being a destroyer of worlds.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

9. “Her name translated as “Survivor,” but she told me she didn’t like it much. I asked her why and she said because she is a female and all females are survivors so it was massively redundant.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

10. “Trust it turned out, was a very beautiful and fragile thing with a taste like wild raspberries and experienced only by the very brave.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

11. “Trees are normally very general and all-inclusive with their wisdom pearls. When a tree decides to talk to you, it’s a very, very big deal, as if the world stops, as if you are scooped up and held in a snow globe, weightless and womb-like. I felt their vibrations in my feathers, in the flutter of my little black heart.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

12. “Every singe one of us, from amoeba to blue whale to the tenacious bloom that dares to dream of tomorrow, have their own destiny-fulfilling journey as long as their minds and hearts are open.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

13. “So there we were. A rejected crow with an identity crisis partnering a bloodhound with the IQ of boiled pudding. We were perhaps the most pathetic excuse for an attempted murder on the face of the earth.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

14. “I cannot recommend this to you enough: find something that you believe in, right down deep in the depths of your silvery plumage, and then throw your heart at it, blood and valves and veins and all. Because I did this, the world, though brambled and frothing at the mouth, looked more vibrant; blues were bluer, and even the fetid puddles that collected under rusting cars tasted as sweet as summer wine.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

15. “Where I come from we call what you’re feeling The Black Tide. It will pass. Tides, by their nature, come and go.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

16. “And though Nature is tough, she is always conspiring for your success, encouraging you to evolve. You can even hear her if you listen carefully.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

17. “We are more powerful when we work together because we look out for one another by being one. That is the code of murder.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

18. “Listen; life is worth a fight. Expectation must be shed like winter leaves. Even in death, there is wondrous beauty. And death is not The End.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

19. “Everything talks, you just have to be willing to listen.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

20. “And we protect The Pack from the hunters, we will fall in love with each moment, singing to the moon that has loved us since we were stars.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

21. “Family doesn’t have to look like you; they can have feathers and scales and scutes. What matters is that you’re loved for who you are in your heart. We survive when we are seen.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

22. “It seemed that being female meant to be prey, even among your own species.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

23. “Addiction to an electronic world caused the downfall of the MoFos. They’d forgotten to connect with each other, to connect with the creatures who missed them and to Nature as She called for them to come home. The crow part of me knew not to dwell on what was, but the MoFo part of me would always carry my best friend in my heart. Because we never give up on anything, especially love, and that’s the very, very best thing about being a MoFo.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

24. “I hated these inky fools, these lentil-brained ass noodles.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

25. “And yet I felt a tickling cognizance, dewdrops beading in my mind. Perhaps I’d always known, always been aware that there is more to be seen than what is in front of me. Perhaps I’d deliberately chosen not to acknowledge the story a flower tells or the particular vibration of rocks. When the mole spoke of The Mother Trees, I didn’t question him because somewhere deep down, below feather and skin and bleached bone, I knew.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

26. “When MoFos and the furred and feathered worked together it was beautiful and unstoppable. It is what nature intended.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

27. “If you are alive – whether of blood or bark – you will be struck by pain, love, longing, fear, anger, and the particular ache of sadness. There will be joys that quiver your leaves and betrayals that will sever your roots, poisoning the water you pull. These are the varying notes in the music of living. Look up, to close your eyes is to stagnate. To rot and stop the song.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

28. “I was stress-stuffed, a Hot Pocket of angst.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

29. “I realized, wet and defeated in a puddle of mud, that I was surrounded by devastatingly beautiful things. None of it called attention to itself, no preening and crowing here, Everything just was what it was, intricately complex and simply stunning.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

30. “They were tiny words from a tiny bird, but perhaps sometimes all you need is a speck of encouragement, an acorn of belief.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

31. “Forgiveness is the ultimate act of strength.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

32. “About how Mother Nature is not kind, but she is balanced. Every single one of us, from amoeba to blue whale to the tenacious bloom that dares to dream of tomorrow, have their own destiny-fulfilling journey as long as their minds and hearts are open. And how we are all connected by a web that looks gossamer but is stronger than a chain-link fence. And though Nature is tough, she is always conspiring for your success, encouraging you to evolve. You can even hear her if you listen carefully.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

33. “Grief can slam into you like a well-waxed window. But it means the ones you love aren’t lost or forgotten. They’ve made a home in your heart, which is the most permanent place of all.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

34. “For every species there is a calling to evolve, an opportunity for change to ensure survival. If a species misses the calling to evolve, they are destined for extinction. This is the law of the earth.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

35. “The thing about cats is that they’re always where they want to be.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

36. “Grief is a tax. One you pay if you were lucky enough to love.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

37. “I had a black belt in running away from things and I wasn’t afraid to use it.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

38. “Maybe it’s animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting. – Carol Emshwiller.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

39. “I cannot recommend this to you enough: find something that you believe in, right down deep in the depths of your silvery plumage, and then throw your heart at it, blood and valves and veins and all.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

40. “Stories suture up our wounds, stitch us back together. They keep our loved ones alive.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

41. “The work was dangerous and made us so tired our bones hurt like old memories.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

42. “When a dog chooses to love a human, it is a timeless affair of the soul and spirit, a meeting far beyond the mortal body. An eternal entanglement is this mingling of the souls. A loyalty beyond language and all of life’s earthly matter.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

43. “And within some amount of time that I can’t be sure of because I still didn’t really understand time and none of the clocks worked anymore, I got an answer.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

44. “There were, sadly, some things that were just impossible to explain, like the plot of Inception and CrossFit.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

45. “I explained birthday cake as a spongy mattress of awesome with hidden rivers of delicious goo to celebrate having stayed alive a whole year.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

46. “It’s not real. It’s just a story,” I said to her. I felt her great black-and-white head bob up and down. She filled me with waves of frothy hope as she said, “Dear Crow, it is all just story.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

47. “Big Jim used to tell me that “money talks,” but this stash was mighty silent. I suspect this is one of those MoFo expressions meant to confuse, like when I wasted an entire afternoon searching the yard for an ax and a body because Big Jim said he’s buried the hatchet with his friend Mike.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

48. “The woods carry sounds in their slow rhythms, sounds that only a heart can hear.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

49. “Sometimes I have the thought that a lot of species are hardwired to refuse to listen to warnings. And that’s how they end up extinct.”

— Kira Jane Buxton

50. “The cat purrs in anticipation of anarchy.”

— Kira Jane Buxton