Sophie Howarth

“Oh, how can I say this: People need wild places. Whether or not we think we do, we do. We need to be able to taste grace and know once again that we desire it. We need to experience a landscape that is timeless, whose agenda moves at the pace of speciation and glaciers. To be surrounded by a singing, mating, howling commotion of other species, all of which love their lives as much as we do ours, and none of which could possibly care less about our economic status or our running day calendar. Wildness puts us in our place. It reminds us that our plans are small and somewhat absurd. It reminds us why, in those cases in which our plans might influence many future generations, we ought to choose carefully. Looking out on a clean plank of planet earth, we can get shaken right down to the bone by the bronze-eyed possibility of lives that are not our own.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder

“To slow time down, practice enjoying the moment. It is where we spend our entire lives.”
― Wu Wei, I Ching Wisdom Volume Two: More Guidance from the Book of Answers: 2

“My dear friends, my dear disciples, don’t take refuge in anything outside of you.”
― Hanh Nhat Thich, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“Let it hurt. Let it bleed. Let it heal. And let it go.”
― Nikita Gill, Your Soul is a River