Writing is neither vibrant life nor docile artifact but a text that would put all its money on the hope of suggestion. - Mary Oliver

"Let me keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,
which is mostly standing still
and learning to be astonished.

(from "The Messenger")"

I would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves - we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together. We are each other's destiny.

determined to do the only thing you could do — determined to save the only life you could save.