The Pine Island Paradox Quotes

“How can we live as if we were in the wilderness, with that same respect and care for what is beautiful and beyond us?”
― Kathleen Dean Moore, The Pine Island Paradox: Making Connections in a Disconnected World

“I came in friendship, but how do you convey intention to a harbor seal? I thought later that I should have left offerings on the island—silvery fish heads, glistening blue necklaces of entrails and bracelets of feathery gills. But I never thought of it then.”
― Kathleen Dean Moore, The Pine Island Paradox: Making Connections in a Disconnected World

“It is a heartache, honestly, to be so shunned. I have never understood why a creator god would go to so much trouble to separate one thing from another—the light from the darkness, waters that were under the firmament from waters that were above, the seas from the dry land, and worst of all, humankind from the fishes of the sea and the birds of the air and every creeping thing.”
― Kathleen Dean Moore, The Pine Island Paradox: Making Connections in a Disconnected World

“I should have felt a loneliness close to despair, there, in the night, in the rain, a thousand miles from home. What I felt instead was uncommon joy. What was there to long for, where all I wanted was what I suddenly had?—to be fully part of the night, joined by a song, by a simple shared song, to the loon, to the wolf, to the keening of all humankind, all of us together in this one infinite night, all of us floating in the same darkness, each of us, as we howl our loneliness, finding that we are not alone after all.”
― Kathleen Dean Moore, The Pine Island Paradox: Making Connections in a Disconnected World