quotations and poetry

Now that Dad was gone I was starting to see how mortality was bound up in things like that cold, arc-lit sky.  How the world is full of signs and wonders that come, and go, and if you are lucky you might see them.

-Helen MacDonald, H is for Hawk

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

– Diane Ackerman

Our most important experiences are not the great big ones that knock you down breathless and change your life forever. The most important experiences are the ones that we go through all the time. That’s really where we live our lives – in the most modest of details.

-James Carse

We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see.  How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding!  How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

-Henry David Thoreau

I lifted my hands and then my eyes and I allowed myself to be astonished by the great everywhere calling to me like an old and unspoken invitation.

-David Whyte