All I can say about Juliette of the Herbs is that it has made me look at how my life is now, still close to the earth, but not close enough...I'm happy to have seen a glimpse into her life.… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“I think of my own life, how it embraces a great quest to know every cog of nature--the names of oaks and ferns, the secret lives of birds, the taste of venison and Ogeechee lime, wax myrtle's smell and rattlesnake's,… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
All I can say about Juliette of the Herbs is that it has made me look at how my life is now, still close… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“Most of us, most of our lives, are asked to live small. Most of us quit trying very young to live the bigness we… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“Rural places have hemorrhaged their best and brightest children, their intellectuals, thinkers, organizers, leaders, and artists-those who would create change and who would parent… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“The assumption is that hope is a prerequisite for action. Without hope one becomes depressed and then unable to act. I want to stress… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“Perhaps no word exists in our terribly inadequate English language to name this abstract, emotional thing that is not forgiveness, is not forgetting, and… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“Sometimes all we have is a little light that we can shine outward into a big darkness.” — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“I think of my own life, how it embraces a great quest to know every cog of nature--the names of oaks and ferns, the… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“Turning back to embrace the past has been a long, slow lesson not only in self-esteem, but in patriotism—pride in homeland, heritage. It has… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods. — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“Of what use to humanity, I ask myself, is a man who cannot see beyond his own hurt?” — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
