resurrection ferns that wait for a rain like dead things and then open up new and green and beautiful like they are doing right now out on the hurric… - Linda Hogan

There is always, to everything, a before and after. (p 201)

Whatever it is that people believe about the lives of writers only applies to writers who have great incomes, I believe.

I see so many disappointing environmental writers who are not writing about the environment at all. They’re writing about themselves in the environment, and they often don’t understand the world they’re writing about. There are clearly writers who are more concerned with traveling around and checking everything out than they are with long-term survival of the habitats that they’re working in. In some ways, the writing I do is politically centered because it is about a world view that can’t be separated from the political