Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet.

Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.

We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention

Things that live by night live outside the realm of 'normal' time and so suggest living outside the realm of good and evil, since we have moralistic feelings about time. Chauvinistic about our human need to wake by day and sleep by night, we come to associate night dwellers with people up to no good at a time when they have the jump on the rest of us and are defying nature, defying their circadian rhythms.

We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.