Hayley Kopp

“Meanwhile I was trying to stave off the ache I'd developed. I noticed it first at the airport, coming home from a trip. There was a crowd on the other side of customs, holding flowers, the little kids dressed up and excited, waiting for their loved ones, who were returning home. I hated walking past that gauntlet of waiting people, because none of them were waiting for me. I stood in the cab line and felt the weight of my aloneness come down on me.”
― Kristin Kimball, The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love

“This humble wish seemed impossible. It was so different from the life I was living, and no one in my circle had those things, or wanted them, or would admit it if they did. I thought I could acknowledge the ache and learn to live with it, the way you live with the pain that lingers long after you've broken a bone, the kind that foretells a shift in the weather.”
― Kristin Kimball, The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love

“Exploring new options in materials and new ways of thinking keeps systems moving forward, developing new solutions. Limiting ourselves to a select few options is very toxic.”
― Wayne Weiseman, Integrated Forest Gardening: The Complete Guide to Polycultures and Plant Guilds in Permaculture Systems

“Many times creatively responding to change immediately puts us on the edge of culture and friendships. People who ride the edge are marginalized until others accept the new reality and the new adaptation. Those with diverse points of view who are willing to make changes in their living systems and risk loss of status are crucial pioneers. How else can solution be adapted unless early adopters take the opportunity?”
― Wayne Weiseman, Integrated Forest Gardening: The Complete Guide to Polycultures and Plant Guilds in Permaculture Systems