Ilana

“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.”
― Aldo Leopold

“Among the many things that religious tradition holds in store for us is a legacy of wonder. The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted. Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism

“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
― Terry Pratchett

“But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.”
― Lawrence Anthony, The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom from a Remarkable Herd of Elephants