Kelsey

“Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“Some have the Pacific in their eyes, the Atlantic on their lips and the Arctic in their words. Some people are made out of oceans.”
― Sherihan Gamal

“As she was putting the finishing touches on The House Without Windows, she wrote of her yearning for a wilder life: “I want as long as possible in that green, fairylike, woodsy, animal-filled, watery, luxuriant, butterfly-painted, moth-dotted, dragonfly-blotched, bird-filled, salamandrous, mossy, ferny, sunshiny, moonshiny, long-dayful, short-nightful land, on that fishy, froggy, tadpoly, shelly, lizard-filled lake—[oh,] no end of the lovely things to say about that place, and I am mad to get there.” Barbara is the girl inside the house, rattling at her cage, demanding to be set free. Go outside, she is saying. Embrace the world in all its frightening, joyful, sun-filled complexity.”
― Laura Smith, The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

“Every day we make some impact on the planet. And the cumulative effect of millions of small ethical actions will truly make a difference.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times