The Earth Laughs In Flowers

I was born in the middle of a storm You won't find me under the sun My feet are chaos I belong to the wild things

Welcome December!

A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.

Behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin. Happy Mother's Day!

The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

We are not lonely, because we chose to be alone. We are not lost, because we chose to disappear.

A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.

“Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles." "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

What an irony it is that these living beings whose shade we sit in, whose fruit we eat, whose limbs we climb, whose roots we water, to whom most of us rarely give a second thought, are so poorly understood. We need to come, as soon as possible, to a profound understanding and appreciation for trees and forests and the vital role they play, for they are among our best allies in the uncertain future that is unfolding.

Jim Robbins, The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet