"Her Pleasure In The Walk Must Arise From The Exercise And The Day, From The View Of The Last Smiles

You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.

Hayao Miyazaki

All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain forest, or comparing tracts of West Coast redwoods to the saguaro forests of the American Southwest... they each have their own gossip, their own sound, their own rustling whispers and smells. A voice speaks up when you enter their acres that can't be mistaken for one you'd hear anyplace else, a voice true to those particular trees, individual rather than of their species.

Charles de Lint, The Onion Girl

"In the backwoods of nature's soul I left my wild true heart."

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience

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

Let sleeping wolves lie

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

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"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

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