The Forest Lover Quotes

“Maybe that's what love was -- walking willingly into the unknown for the sake of the other.”
― Susan Vreeland, The Forest Lover

“She sat very still, listening to a stream gurgling, the breeze soughing through upper branches, the melodious kloo-klack of ravens, the nyeep-nyeep of nuthatches - all sounds chokingly beautiful. She felt she could hear the cool clean breath of growing things - fern fronds, maple leaves, white trillium petals, tree trunks, each in its rightful place.”
― Susan Vreeland, The Forest Lover

“Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.”
― Susan Vreeland, The Forest Lover

“at age seventy-four, she was asked what had been the outstanding events of her life. She responded, “Work and more work! . . . loving everything terrifically. . . . The outstanding event to me is the doing—which I am still at.”
― Susan Vreeland, The Forest Lover

“put herself back together again and again. She would drink the forest liquids and drench herself in possibility.”
― Susan Vreeland, The Forest Lover

“Has it ever occurred to you that to clutch at life fearfully, unwilling to spend it, is not a form of gratitude to God for life?” Lizzie looked at her as if pained by some bright light. “But to fling one’s whole being at a goal of interpreting God’s creation—”
― Susan Vreeland, The Forest Lover

“Paint a self-portrait, for our parlor. I want to see that one eyebrow permanently arched, permanently skeptical—the look of someone who doesn’t suffer prudes easily.”
― Susan Vreeland, The Forest Lover