Burton

“The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy”
― Richard Bach

“at the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.”
― Susan Wiggs, The You I Never Knew

“Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

“Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its sesonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time..."
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― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek