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“Annabelle,” Hattie said, inevitably. “Tell us about your soulmate.” “He seems occupied elsewhere, doesn’t he? It’s just as well that I mean to rely on my own half.”
“Nothing in nature exists as a metaphor, but human beings are reckless metaphor makers anyway, and only a fool could fail to find the lesson here. The cold roots of the sleeping trees along the streambed are even now taking in water. One day soon that water will rise and spring into the world in a rush of tight green leaves poised to unfurl. Everything that waits is also preparing itself to move.”
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
“I’ve been finding the supports and community to nourish it … And it is starting to germinate … A new beginning … It’s coming … We are who we’ve been waiting for.”
― A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars
― A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars
“More and more in all of my work I find the rhythm and flow which came out of that time with the land and its creatures, which is now part of me. I’ve learned how to show up and pay attention in a new more authentic way which informs my daily life.”
― If Women Rose Rooted: A Life-Changing Journey to Authenticity and Belonging
― If Women Rose Rooted: A Life-Changing Journey to Authenticity and Belonging
“so I am trying hard to be patient with winter this year, to settle into the season of waiting with more joy than I ever managed during winter’s last gasp in the past.”
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
“Yawe—the animate to be. I am, you are, s/he is. To speak of those possessed with life and spirit we must say yawe. By what linguistic confluence do Yahweh of the Old Testament and yawe of the New World both fall from the mouths of the reverent? Isn’t this just what it means, to be, to have the breath of life within, to be the offspring of Creation? The language reminds us, in every sentence, of our kinship with all of the animate world.”
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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