Edna Brush Perkins

“Beyond the walls and solid roofs of houses is the outdoors. It is always on the doorstep. The sky, serene, or piled with white, slow-moving clouds, or full of wind and purple storm, is always overhead. But walls will assert themselves and domineer. They insist on the unique importance of the contents of walls and would have you believe the spaces above them, the slow processions of the seasons and the alternations of sunshine and rain, are accessories, pleasant or unpleasant, of walls.

Collected in: Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature by Lorraine Anderson”
― Edna Brush Perkins