Erin

“children who spent time in green spaces between the ages of seven and twelve tend to think of nature as magical. As adults they are the people most likely to be indignant about lack of nature protection, while those who have had no such experience tend to regard nature as hostile or irrelevant and are indifferent to its loss. By expurgating nature from children's lives we are depriving the environment of its champions for the future.”
― Isabella Tree, Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm

“I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.”
― Patricia C. Wrede

“When men talk about honor,” Hyperia said, “they usually mean pride. True honor goes about its business without making speeches or taking umbrage over a hand of whist.”
― Grace Burrowes, A Gentleman in Search of a Wife

“not everyone had had the benefits of a cantankerous relative beating the need to learn to think for oneself into their heads at a young age.”
― Victoria Goddard, The Hands of the Emperor