Jeanne

“TOUCH is the most powerful of our senses: the average adult has approximately 2 m2 of SKIN, making it the largest organ in the body.”
― Matteo Farinella

“Long you linger, listeners, hard you press your ears against our bark, but you will never sense our sap, and you will never speak in leaves, or put down roots into the rot - for we are willow and you are not.”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Lost Words

“I'm convinced that most of the important tasks in our lives all amount to the same thing: clearing away the burdens that block our way.”
― Greg Kincaid, Christmas with Tucker

“You see, one scene leads to the next. The Domes, the Grassy Plains, now the Indians Hunting Buffalo, now the Village of the Dead, very popular because of 'the curious manner by which Indians dispose of their dead.' Which is not as curious as the Jews: you stop breathing for two seconds, watch out, you're in the ground; and not as curious as the Catholics: they keep you in the parlor for weeks so everyone can get a good look and have a beer.”
― Amy Bloom, Away