Maggie

“If we were meant to stay in one place, we would have roots instead of feet.”
― Rachel Wolchin

“Wilderness is not a place of isolation but contemplation. Refuge. Refugees.....Wilderness is a knife that cuts through pretense and exposes fear. Even in remote country, you cannot escape your mind.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks

“The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser―in case you thought optimism was dead.”
― Robert Brault

“Possessing a language meant possessing the world expressed in its words. Dispossessing it meant nothing less than the loss of a world and the beginning of bewilderment forever. "Language is the only homeland," said poet Czeslaw Milosz. My parents left the world that created them and now would be beginners for the rest of their lives, mumblers searching for the right word, the proper phrase that approximated what they felt inside. I wonder at the eloquence that must have lived inside them that never found a way out.”
― Alex Tizon