"And I say to my heart: rave..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms, thinking of nothing, cramming the black honey of summer into my mouth; all day my body accepts what it is. In the dark creeks that run by there is this thick paw of my life darting among the black bells, the leaves; there is this happy tongue.”

“I climb, I backtrack. I float. I ramble my way home.”

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

“Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.”

“You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.”

“If you do what you enjoy doing you'll never have to work hard.”

“A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.”

“The grass is always greener over the septic tank.”

“This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.”