Heather Clarke
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“…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be.”
― Somehow: Thoughts on Love
― Somehow: Thoughts on Love
“I’m not trying to hide from the truth but to balance it, to remind myself that there are other truths, too. I need to remember that the earth, fragile as it is, remains heartbreakingly beautiful. I need to give my attention to a realm that is indifferent to fretful human mutterings and naked human anger, a world unaware of the hatred
and distrust taking over the news.”
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
and distrust taking over the news.”
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
“What if resting, all by itself, is the real act of holiness? What if honoring the gift of
our only life in this gorgeous world means taking time every week to slow down? To sleep? To breathe? The natural world has never
needed us more than it needs us now, but we can’t be of much use to it if we remain in a perpetual state of exhaustion and despair.”
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
our only life in this gorgeous world means taking time every week to slow down? To sleep? To breathe? The natural world has never
needed us more than it needs us now, but we can’t be of much use to it if we remain in a perpetual state of exhaustion and despair.”
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
“Life is such a mystery that you have to wonder if God drinks a little.”
― Somehow: Thoughts on Love
― Somehow: Thoughts on Love
“Pull up a weed from the wet soil of the drenched garden and smell the rich life the earthworm has left behind. Just a whiff of it will flood you with a feeling of well-being. The microbes in freshly turned soil stimulate serotonin production, working on the human brain the same way antidepressants do.”
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
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