Katie Noah Gibson

“I believe the best way to begin reconnecting humanity's heart, mind, and soul to nature is for us to share our individual stories.”
― J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

“Words define us, they explain us, and, on occasion, they serve to control or isolate us.”
― Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

“& I'm writing my own story
so that I can remember it accurately

in case someone else
tries to tell it for me.”
― Elisabet Velasquez, When We Make It

“I don’t mean to say that when a forest is gone you can replace it with a poem. When a forest is gone, you cannot replace it. But with written words you can bear witness, you can hold a memory of the forest for others to experience and celebrate, you can grieve over the loss and rage against the forces that have leveled the forest- and through grief you can fall in love with forests again, and through that falling, you can believe again in the human capacity for love and in the faith that we might learn to protect what we love.”
― Alison Hawthorne Deming, Writing the Sacred into the Real