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

“What I saw that night was a world so rich and complex I was disorientated, a world complete unto itself, a world of smooth surfaces broken occasionally by a flash of eccentricity so deep that it numbed any attempt at interpretation.”
― Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook

“The arrogance of English is that the only way to be animate, to be worthy of respect and moral concern, is to be human.”
― 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