Quote for Today: Carl Safina
We are the universe aware of itself. We let the miracle get lost in distractions. On a planet so rich with living companions, much of humanity sentences itself to …
Quote for Today: Thrity Umrigar
We are earthbound creatures, Maggie had thought. No matter how tempting the sky. No matter how beautiful the stars. No matter how deep the dream of flight. We are creatures …
Quote for Today: Mohsin Hamid
Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our …
Quote for Today: Jon Kabat-Zinn
There is really no natural limit to the practice of loving kindness in meditation or in one’s life. It is an ongoing, ever-expanding realization of interconnectedness. It is also its …
Quote for Today: Ursula K. LeGuin
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. —Ursula K. LeGuin Image by WikiImages from Pixabay
Quote for Today: Robin McKinley
The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You …
Quote for Today: Chief Luther Standing Bear
From Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, there came a great unifying life force that flowed in and through all things—the flowers of the plains, blowing winds, rocks, trees, birds, animals—and …
Quote for Today: Christopher Isherwood
But that long day ends at last; yields to the night-time of the flood. And, just as the waters of the ocean come flooding, darkening over the pools, so over George …
Quote for Today: Courtney Summers
There is nothing like discovering your own secrets in someone else’s story. Those thoughts and feelings you believed were too ugly or strange or idealistic or desperate or whimsical or …
Quote for Today: Chief Seattle
– The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites one family. Man did not weave the web …