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That is why she has the bothán by the woods. He had it built for her, and she selected the site herself, for ’tis close to the Good People and those who gave her the knowledge. Close to the woods and the herbs that grow in them. Close to the boundary water. Sure, ’tis a place for a wise woman, and ’tis wisdom Nance Roche has.’
Hannah Kent • The Good People
There are no individuals. There aren’t even separate species. Everything in the forest is the forest.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
amid pure nature (or the ‘tonic of wildness’ as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.
Matt Haig • The Midnight Library: The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon
Parched wheat and pine pollen make a fine meal vine flowers and salted bamboo make a tasty dish when I’m exhausted I think of nothing else let others become buddhas or immortals
Stonehouse Red Pine • The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse
which form over the oceans and are blown over land by the wind.
Peter Wohlleben • The Hidden Life of Trees: The International Bestseller
What do we want most to dwell near to? Not to many men surely, the depot, the post-office, the bar-room, the meeting-house, the school-house, the grocery, Beacon Hill, or the Five Points, where men most congregate, but to the perennial source of our life, whence in all our experience we have found that to issue, as the willow stands near the water
... See moreHenry David Thoreau • Walden
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—
The wide stretch of white snow with the inky tree shadows spilled on it, the elusive scents on the cold wind, the ridiculous fun of bounding and digging after shrews that ventured out of their winter burrows.