There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself.
Linda HoganThe crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.
Linda Hogantears have a purpose. they are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed.
Linda HoganA spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung into existence.
Linda HoganA woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they were speaking their innermost secrets into her listening ears. Over the years Iโve envisioned that womanโs silence, a hearing full and open enough that the world told her its stories. The green leaves turned toward her, whispering tales of soft breezes and the murmurs of leaf against leaf.
Linda Hogan