I want my writing to bring people not just to think of "trees" as they mostly do now, but of each individual tree, and each kind of tree.

To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed.

I am a woodlander, I have sap in my veins.

Right now I can't even control my own imagination as it grips my hair and drags me into the dark

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this that the beast does but know but the man knows that he knows.

The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.

I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.

I'm not afraid to fail...I'm scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, 'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more.

None but God can fill the perfect whole.

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

What kind of sick person would answer rainbows?