Cheryl LeClair

“The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

“It can be difficult to find common ground when all some wish to discuss is our differences.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“Mushrooms were the roses in the garden of that unseen world, because the real mushroom plant was underground. The parts you could see - what most people called a mushroom - was just a brief apparition. A cloud flower.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood