"It is an oyster, with small shells clinging to its humped back. Sprawling and uneven, it has the irregularity of something growing. It looks rather like the house of a big family, pushing out one addi..."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude."
"# "I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swished around its tail to completely encircle itself...."
"Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me."
"After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood."
"And then, some morning in the second week, the mind wakes, comes to life again. Not in a city sense—no—but beach-wise. It begins to drift, to play, to turn over in gentle careless rolls like those laz..."
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after."
"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach."