Basil Davia

“I might never have realized who I really was or have gotten answers to the relentless questions that had driven me to the Cove without those quiet hours spent with Fairlight in the mountains. I do not know why it is that an intimate contact with wildlife and a personal observation of nature helps so much in this self-discovery. But that it is so, I have seen in other people's lives as well as my own....even a few bricks and macadam are a shield between us and the wisdom that nature has to give.”
― Catherine Marshall, Christy

“no,”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie

“But you know the old saying? Out of sight, out of mind. If people aren't there to be talked about the talk dies. It's the way of the world.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin