"The woods that I loved as a..." - Quote by Mary Oliver
The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails.
More by Mary Oliver
“I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars.”
“Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?”
“I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.”
More on Nature
“The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.”
“A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look”
“Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.”
More on Change
“Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.”
“You have to remember that goodbyes are temporary because no one ever really leaves and nothing lasts forever. People are always with us, because they are in our hearts and in our memory. The only thing we can depend on is change... Life is just a series of moments -- a string of pearls that make up the necklace of your life and so every once in a while, to complete the circle, you need to end a chapter.”
“We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.”