“They would martyr me themselves to satisfy their hunger for a saint.”
― Vespertine
― Vespertine
“As for me, I have a choice between honoring that dark life I've seen so many years moving in the junipers, or of walking away and going on with my own human busyness. There is always that choice for humans.”
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“What a strange alchemy we have worked, turning earth around to destroy itself, using earth's own elements to wound it.”
― Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
― Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
“Paganism is the deepening of appearances, while saintliness is the sickness of depths.”
― Tears and Saints
― Tears and Saints
“Like the water, the earth, the universe, a story is forever unfolding. It floods and erupts. It births new worlds. It is circular as our planet and fluid as the words of the first people who came out from the ocean or out of the cave or down from the sky. Or those who came from a garden where rivers meet and whose god was a tempter to their fall, planning it into their creation along with all the rest.”
― People of the Whale
― People of the Whale
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