Emily

“It tells us that all is not as it seems and that everything we experience is but a filtered version of everything that we could experience.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

“This isn't the ending I dreamed of, sure. But when you realize failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things.”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

“The majesty of nature is not restricted to canyons and mountains. It can be found in the wilds of perception--the sensory spaces that lie outside our Umwelt and within those of other animals. To perceive the world through other senses is to find splendor in familiarity and the sacred in the mundane. Wonders exist in a backyard garden, where bees take the measure of a flower’s electric fields, leafhoppers send vibrational melodies through the stems of plants, and birds behold the hidden palates of rurples and grurples...Wilderness is not distant. We are continually immersed in it. It is there for us to imagine, to savor and to protect.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

“But what’s both uncomfortable and damaging is reaffirming the story that someone else’s feelings are more important or worthy than your own—which is what you do every time you swallow your healthy boundary in an effort to keep the peace.”
― Melissa Urban, The Book of Boundaries: Set the Limits That Will Set You Free