Leyssandra

“The combination of circumstances which allows it to exist at all are so implausible that Schistostega is rendered much more precious than gold.... It’s life, and ours, exist only because of a myriad of synchronicities that bring us to this particular place at this particular moment. In return for such a gift, the only sane response is to glitter in reply.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

“What you wind up regretting aren’t the things you do, it’s what you don’t do that you will never forgive yourself for.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“This is how the world ends: in a myriad of tiny tragedies. Each extinction of species, language, custom is noted not with a howl of protest but with a quiet tear.”
― Ben Rawlence, The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

“you must be yourself no matter what; anything else was a lie, and a denial of who you were would always cause grief. What you put out into the world came back to you threefold. If you could not accept yourself, you would be reviled and cast out, adrift in the world.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic