Emily | Planned & Planted

“The myopia that lets us see only our woes falls away for a little while. Suddenly, we can breathe again.”
― Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

“You’ll never be the perfect mother, so just do the best you can. All Brightbill really needs is to know you’re doing your best.”
― Peter Brown, The Wild Robot

“Once you tune in to one aspect of nature, you eventually become aware of the whole connected network of life around us.”
― Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

“I come from a tribe of women who are ravaged and joyous, loud, raging, tied to our own convoluted histories. We are a knot of branches, mud-speckled and ever-searching, and the man to make his way inside is someone who must grow from the same earth, the same brokenness. Or maybe, the men who come to us will only every be visitors. We claim squatters' rights in our tangled histories.”
― Thao Thai, Banyan Moon