Sue Brown

“Mindfulness is the energy that makes us fully present, fully alive in the here and the now.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Breath: A Practice for Our Busy Lives

“But everyone needs to hope.”
― Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

“Trees have a rather complicated relationship with people, after all. One minute you’re hugging us. The next minute you’re turning us into tables and tongue depressors.”
― Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

“History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.”
― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers