Lee Ellen

“...imagination forms part of the everyday business of inquiring.”
― SHELDRAKE MERLIN

“What's astonishing is the gulf between what we expect to find and what we find when we actually look.”
― SHELDRAKE MERLIN, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

“In essence there are no characters in my story. There is love. And it acted-through persons.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva, The Story of Sonechka

“Sensing can feel passive, as if eyes and other sense organs were just intake valves through which animals absorb and receive the stimuli around them. But over time, the simple act of seeing recolors the world. Guided by evolution, eyes are living paintbrushes. Flowers, frogs, fish, feathers and fruit all show that sight affects what is seen and that much of what we find beautiful in nature has been shaped by the vision of our fellow animals. Beauty is not only in the eye of the beholder, it arises because of that eye.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World / The Green New Deal