The grounds for hope are in the shadows, in the people who are inventing the world while no one looks, who themselves don’t know yet whether they will have any effect.
—REBECCA SOLNIT
Like the standing wave in front of a rock in a fast-moving stream, a city is a pattern in time.
—JOHN HOLLAND
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
—JOHN MUIR
The boy builds us a fire out of pinecones, puts on a kettle, and makes us tea. Then he produces a small piece of cheese and painstakingly cuts it into even smaller pieces, which he offers us gravely. . . .
He has given us everything he has, and he has done this with absolutely no expectation of anything in return. A small miracle of trust, and a lesson in hospitality that changed my life.
—ALICE WATERS