Middle World Quotes

“The forest has a different quality now, girded with winter. It no longer dozes among its autumn finery like a king in silken bedclothes, but holds itself in tension, watchful and waiting. Its moments like that, I am reminded of Gauthier's writings on woodlands and the nature of their appeal to the Folk. Specifically, the forest as liminal, a "middle-world" as Gauthier puts it, its roots burrowing deep into the earth as their branches yearn for the sky. Her scholarship tends towards the tautological and is not infrequently tedious (qualities she shares with a number of the continental dryadologists) yet there is a sense to her words one only grasps after time spent among the Folk.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“What we believe spirit visitors to be influences how they affect our lives. What we believe ourselves to be dictates how we react to them.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, Real Wyrd : A Modern Shaman's Roots in the Middle World