Syrah Linsley

“Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.”
― James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

“We are part mineral beings too — our teeth are reefs, our bones are stones — and there is a geology of the body as well as of the land. It is mineralization — the ability to convert calcium into bone — that allows us to walk upright, to be vertebrate, to fashion the skulls that shield our brains.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey

“There is hope.
There is hope everywhere.
Today God gives milk
and I have the pail”
― Anne Sexton, The Awful Rowing Toward God

“To perceive matter that casts no shadow, you must search not for its presence but for its consequence.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey