Kenzie Miller > Kenzie's Quotes

“A double rainbow had changed the course of my relationship with the fox. I had been jogging when I realised that he would live only a few years in this harsh country. At the time I believed that making an emotional investment in a short-lived creature was a fool's game. Before the jog ended, a rainbow appeared in front of me. One end of the rainbow slipped through an island of tall dead poplars drowning in gray sky, their crowns splitting and spraying into each other. I stopped. A second rainbow arched over the poplars. How many rainbows had I seen in this one valley? A hundred easy, and I always paused to watch. I realised that a fox, like a rainbow and every other gift from Nature, had an intrinsic value that was quite independent of its longevity. After that, whenever I questioned devoting so much time to an animal whose lifespan barely exceeded the blink of an eye, I remembered rainbows.”
― Catherine Raven, Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship

“I am so much less concerned with being "normal" than with simply being alive.”
― Catherine Raven, Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." - John Muir”
― catherine raven, Fox & I

“I realized that a fox, like a rainbow and every other gift from Nature, had an intrinsic value that was quite independent of its longevity.”
― Catherine Raven, Fox and I

“I don't ever need to be happier than I was at that moment when I realized Fox was alive. On the hillside where he was dancing, rivulets rained down from a carnelian cliff and flowed through round-stemmed sedges, not so different from a stretch of the Wonderland Trail that I used to cross on my way to Indian Bar.”
― Catherine Raven, Fox & I

“Our imaginations continue to shape our future until we grow up, slip into the mold society readies for us, and harden. Once we step out of the mold, our hard clay cannot soften or reshape itself again. In the process of growing up and allowing ourselves to become recruited into this adult-centric world, our imagination contracts.”
― Catherine Raven, Fox & I