“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver
Embracing Silence
““As deep as I ever went into the forest
I came upon an old stone bench, very, very old,
and around it a clearing, and beyond that
trees taller and older than I had ever seen.
Such silence! “
Big Questions
“And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response.”
Shared Beliefs
“If citizenship is a matter of shared beliefs, then I believe in the democracy of species.”
Be Their Voice
“The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice, no vote. It is our moral duty to take care of them.”
-Roger Tory Peterson
Colorful Relationships
“One thing I’ve learned in the woods is that there is no such thing as random. “