"Tell me, what is it you plan..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“I'd rather write about polar bears than people.”

“Every morning I walk like this around the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead.”

“it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.”

“You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.”

“Water is the driving force of all nature.”

“One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.”

“But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost.”

“Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.”

“With what we give, we make a life.”