Ash before Oak Quotes

“I don't want to cook and I don't want to be cooked for, I don't want to speak or be spoken to and I don't want to be silent or be silenced, I don't want to be seen by anybody and I don't want to be left alone, I don't want to live and I don't want to die.”
― Jeremy Cooper, Ash before Oak

“Oliver Rackham writes, in his The History of the Countryside, a book of passionate opinion and the observations of a lifetime: ‘More intractable than destruction in pursuit of a purpose is the blight of tidiness which every year sweeps away something of beauty or meaning.”
― Jeremy Cooper, Ash before Oak

“Wonderful the way seasonal change in the fall of light alters the look of familiar paths.”
― Jeremy Cooper, Ash before Oak