Nancy

“As a pupil of wild things, I have come to understand that life must continue despite the cruelty of the climate. Lack of sunlight does not defeat the albino Indian pipe; scarcity of water does not destroy the creosote. Survival depends on evolution and evolution on a determined will to adapt. Over”
― Krista Schlyer, Almost Anywhere: Road Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, National Parks, and Nonsense

“life can throw knives in eyes that are searching for a reason to keep believing. And life makes no apologies. The very nature of life demands unsympathetically that you redefine beauty to include pain. We are the students—life and death are the masters. The only control we have is the will to see and be affected. As”
― Krista Schlyer, Almost Anywhere: Road Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, National Parks, and Nonsense

“There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West