Nurture is like psychic Wheaties.

When you feel bad, find a person to talk to and cry with, to tell of your anger and other helpless feelings.

Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God.

Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.

Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

we wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than a fire of conflagration.

To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.