If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected. ― Chief Seattle Image © Budhiargomiko with CCLicense
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Quote for Today: Emily Dickinson
Nature is a haunted house--but Art--a house that tries to be haunted. --Emily Dickinson, Letters Image: Punderson Manor by Katherine McDaniel, 2017
Quote for Today: Paulette Jiles
Outside, as she passed the kitchen window, she watched her breath appear before her in the lamplight and then it died away in moist clouds. This was the smoke of her internal fire and her soul. Every breath was a letter to the world. These she mailed into the cold air leaning back with pursed … Continue reading Quote for Today: Paulette Jiles
Quote for Today: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. --Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Image via StockPhotosForFree.com
Quote for Today: Alice Munro
You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? He laughed. That is correct, Señor. It is as if ideas are made of blocks. Rigid and hard. And stories are made of a gauze that is elastic. You can almost see through it, so what … Continue reading Quote for Today: Alice Munro
Quote for Today: Helen Hayes
All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar. –Helen Hayes Public Domain Image via MaxPixel.com
Quote for Today: Virginia Woolf
But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors. -Virginia … Continue reading Quote for Today: Virginia Woolf
