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

“We diminish ourselves too,” she said at last, “when feeling sorry for someone who has done a dreadful wrong leads us to excuse him and simply hope he will mend his ways. Feeling sorry for someone but acknowledging that justice ought nevertheless to be done is more appropriate to moral beings.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Romance

“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

“The world changes one person and one decision at a time. None of us know what decision, precisely, is the telling one.”
― Victoria Goddard, The Hands of the Emperor