Sonia

“growing power is rooted in mystery like the night, and reaches lightward. Seeds sprout in the darkness of the ground before they know the summer and the day. In the night of the womb the spirit quickens into flesh.”
― John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition

“If you would experience a landscape, you must go alone into it and sit down somewhere quietly and wait for it to come in its own good time to you.”
― Paul Gruchow, The Necessity of Empty Places

“Certain English geologists produced confusion by embracing continental drift and then drawing up narratives and maps that showed continents moving all over the earth with respect to a fixed and undriftable England.”
― John McPhee, Basin and Range

“I’ve been thinking a great deal about time and motion lately, about being a still point in the ceaseless rush.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility