Nathan

“Fifty thousand years ago, an elk was struck by lightning and lived. The ache of it stayed in her bones the rest of her life. There was no human there to see it or record it in words, yet it’s just as much a part of earth’s essential history as any song lingering in a billion human minds. So why should we think of language as the lifeblood of knowledge or the currency of legitimate existence?”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Something in the Woods Loves You

“There are two paths to magic: Imagination and paying attention. Imagination is the fiction we love, the truths built of falsehoods, glowing dust on the water’s surface. Paying attention is about intentional noticing, participating in making meaning to lend new weight to our world. An acorn. The geometry of a beehive. The complexity of whale song. The perfect slowness of a heron.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Something in the Woods Loves You

“When I looked into my backyard, seeing a squirrel take an offered seed, my bruised mind trying to grasp any firm point in the weightless haze of my pain and uncertainty, I felt the tug of a wordless lesson in those creatures’ surety of place and purpose. I couldn’t conceive of a world where they were questioning if they deserved their food or their spot on the bough. I couldn’t imagine that they questioned whether their lives were adding up to something worth having, that they were doubting past leaps or the quality of their dreys.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Something in the Woods Loves You