Kaity

“I am trying to understand what it means to own a thing, especially a wild and living being. To have exclusive rights to its fate? To dispose of it at will? To deny others it’s use? Ownership seems a uniquely human behavior, a social contract validating the desire for purposeless possession and control.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

“I am here, available to life. And life is available to me.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Connect

“I know, in your heart, you didn’t want to leave the parish. It feel like something takes a hold of you and roots you to the ground here. You try to leave, but it pull you back, and you never get too far.”
― Tracy Cross, Rootwork

“Places are never just places in a piece of writing. If they are, the author has failed.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House