I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.
Charles de LintWonderingโs healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
Charles de LintIt's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are
Charles de LintAll forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain forest, or comparing tracts of West Coast redwoods to the saguaro forests of the American Southwest... they each have their own gossip, their own sound, their own rustling whispers and smells. A voice speaks up when you enter their acres that can't be mistaken for one you'd hear anyplace else, a voice true to those particular tress, individual rather than of their species.
Charles de Lint