Michelle Valadez

“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul”
― John Muir

“We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.”
― Cesar Chavez

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.”
― Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

“A prison for animals who committed no crimes is what a zoo is." - On Zoos”
― Lamine Pearlheart, The Sunrise Scrolls: To Life from the Shadows II