Stephanie Bruno

“We all carry our lives in us, not just our problems or nightmares, but something of what we were before.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“Since ancient times, gardens have helped people bridge the gap between doing on the one hand and being on the other.”
― Sue Stuart-Smith, The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature

“The fascist playbook is a shell game of fear—taking our real, understandable concerns as Americans but making us look somewhere else, blame someone else, as the cause. Because fascists need enemies to justify their attacks on public education and our democracy and society as a whole.”
― Randi Weingarten, Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy

“Gardening is about a balance of different forces, human and natural, life and death. When it comes to contemplating the inevitability of death, decay, and decomposition, however, much of the garden’s power derives from a direct and earthy engagement with it. If you are not a gardener, it may seem strange to think that scrabbling about in the soil can be a source of existential meaning, but gardening gives rise to its own philosophy, and it is one that gets worked out in the flower beds.”
― Sue Stuart-Smith, The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature