Jeanne

“It is hard to make sense of something without a little part of that something rubbing off on you.”
― Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

“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

“The Smallest Snowflake looked up at the tallest snowdrop. She had never seen anything so beautiful. Love filled her heart with such warmth that she melted away with joy. It was spring.”
― Bernadette Watts, The Smallest Snowflake

“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