Colleen

“The average lawn is an interesting beast: people plant it, then douse it with artificial fertilizers and dangerous pesticides to make it grow and to keep it uniform-all so that they can hack and mow what they encouraged to grow. And woe to the small yellow flower that rears its head!”
― Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

“Trees are corrupting our parks. They should be arrested for loitering. For deciduous trees, add littering and indecent exposure to that list of offenses.”
― Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

“To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.”
― Richard Mabey, Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees

“All this, and discontent too! Otherwise, why am I sitting here dreaming of England? Why am I gazing at this campfire like a lost should seeking a hope when all that I love is at my wingtips? Because I am curious. Because I am incorrigibly, now, a wanderer.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night