my delicious loose ends
Soul & Soil
“Soul and soil are not separate. Neither are wind and spirit, nor water and tears.” —Terry Tempest Williams
Carried by the Wind
“And yet I raise my hands aloft to God, that I might be held by God, just like a feather which has no weight from its own strength and lets itself be carried by the wind.” —Hildegard of Bingen, The Book of Divine Works
Fire and Water
If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. —Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Beauty
“Beauty is not accidental, frivolous, or marginal, but at the very center, stirring our hearts and our sensitive, sensuous bodies, attracting us into life with its immediacy and delight.” —J. Ruth Gendler, Notes on the Need for Beauty
Findings
“All of these findings are still new, but I’m in love with the idea that plants have a temperature, that they can run warm and cold when they need to, that they can send signals to species who will help them, not harm them.”
