Quote for Today: Catherynne M. Valente
“Have you never known a cruel wind? What an easy, balmy, tropical life you must have! I never tease, madam! I coax, I beguile, I stomp, I throw tantrums, and …
“Have you never known a cruel wind? What an easy, balmy, tropical life you must have! I never tease, madam! I coax, I beguile, I stomp, I throw tantrums, and …
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, the longing reveals …
Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And …
We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps …
We are born with the urge to build and make things. What does this creativity tell us about our origins? Since 1990, Dutch artist Theo Jansen has been designing animals from PVC …
The wind makes you ache in some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race …
The wind envelops you with a certain purpose in mind, and it rocks you. The wind knows everything that’s inside you. And not just the wind. Everything, including a stone. …
I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you …
“If you want to go straight against the wind, find a path in its folds and pass through it,” he had said, although he’d never actually taught his grandson how …
Nature reveals that humanity is not in control of the outside world. How much does nature shape our internal landscape? There is a hot, dry wind that blows down from the …
