Mary Oconnell

“A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.”
― E. O. Wilson

“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”
― E.O. Wilson

“This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.

Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.

If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with beginning.”
― John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

“Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.”
― Thomas Merton