Ruby Grace

“When we tell them that the tree is not a who, but an it, we make that maple tree an object; we put a barrier between us”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species

“It occurred to me almost constantly in the South that had I lived there I would have been an eccentric and full of anger, and I wondered what form the anger would have taken. Would I have taken up causes, or would I have simply knifed somebody?”
― Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook

“And the code might ask of any harvest, including energy, that our purpose be worthy of the harvest.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species

“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned