Forests Are Like Churches, Hallowed Places. There's A Stillness About Them, A Sort Of Reverence.

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

Each day is born with a sunrise and ends in a sunset, the same way we open our eyes to see the light, and close them to hear the dark. You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an ending. Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. And every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate ART.

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

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!

"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.”

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

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!

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.