Elysees Wood Quotes & Sayings

Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its sesonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time ...
— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung. — Beth Gibbons

One of the best ways to learn anything is to teach yourself. — Giles Rich

The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world. — Ethel Wilson

Meditate upon the Om that is in the heart. — Swami Vivekananda

Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english. — James Joyce

We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes sense to us. We then 'see' the world through the self we have created. — Margaret J. Wheatley