“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver
Animal People
How many hearts with warm red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining! A multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as we are about ours.
John Muir
The Peace of Wild Things
“When despair grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be..”