Family Quote by Daniel José Older

“I glanced up at the trees too. Dead. Every one of them gray and white, needles rusted, leaves shriveled at the tips of branches.…

— Devon Monk

“...the Sierra Nevada claimed me, aching knees and pumping heart, as one of it's own. Here, like nowhere else, I'm home.”

— Chris Robertson

“Let go of your old tired habits and plant new habits in fertile soil.”

— Harley King

“...the Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in…

— Jim Fergus

“My love for my family has grown for years in decay-fed soil, unwashed root pulled suddenly from the ground. Bulbous as a beet, a…

— Anne Michaels

“Bloom where you are planted--it drives the weeds crazy!”

— Celine Chatillon Cynthianna

“When I die, she said, I am coming back as a tree with deep roots and I'll wave my leaves to the children every…

— Brian Andreas

“You can't shake the roots of life and hope for a better tomorrow. Planting is the way of our journey, leaving them to grow…

— Niklaus Vestalla

“Like Indian corn in August, the "what ifs" in my life were growing fast. Too fast.”

— Avi

“If the weeds are removed and there is nothing planted, it is the weeds that will keep growing.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“When the world has changed and the rivers run dry ad the forests grow brown will we realize that we don't run the world.…

— Veronica White

“It was approaching night, the conversation having taken up the better part of a day. Out of the fragile light a fourth perezoso spoke,…

— Lon Otto