my delicious loose ends
“Soul and soil are not separate. Neither are wind and spirit, nor water and tears.” —Terry Tempest Williams
If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. —Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
“Every rain cloud, however fleeting, leaves its mark, not only on trees and flowers whose pulses are quickened and on the replenished streams and lakes, but also on the rocks are its marks engraved whether we can see them or not.” —John Muir, My…
“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.”