Michael

“I return to the wilderness to remember what I have forgotten, that the world can be wholesome and beautiful, that the harmony and integrity of ecosystems at peace is a mirror to what we have lost.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks

“Over time, jealousy becomes an element as indispensable as paint in the life of the master artist.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red

“Scientific discoveries, like most surprises, come by luck, and luck comes by keeping moving and having a keen nose to detect anomalies.”
― Bernd Heinrich, Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival

“Old-growth cultures, like old-growth forests, have not been exterminated. The land holds their memory and the possibility of regeneration. They are not only a matter of ethnicity or history, but of relationships born out of reciprocity between land and people.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants