Closeness Quote by Larry Watson

“Habits, places and faces grew into you over time, like tree roots burrowing into stone work.”

— Frances Hardinge

“Some knowledge comes to us like a seed.... Then, we have to bury it and leave it alone in the dark. When it's time,…

— Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl

“In a sea of trees turned into a sea of total strangers, familiar means everything.”

— Emily Murdoch

“But I know that the body I inhabit will only take so much, can only go so far. Rocks, stones, even the leaning twisting…

— Eva Figes

“Know what you desire, but, more importantly, why you desire it. That why was where the trick lay, I realized. Why was a land…

— Deb Caletti

“The most beautiful thing about the world is how much is unknown to us. There are so many secrets, Hawthorn. So much awaiting discovery.…

— Chelsea Sedoti

“Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.”

— Marlene Van Niekerk

“The more familiar that a place becomes, the more mysterious it becomes, as well, if you are alert to the truth of things. I…

— Dean Koontz

“Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its form alters…

— Stefanie Brook Trout

“Everything is strange. Things are huge and very small. The stalks of flowers are thick as oak trees. Leaves are high as the domes…

— Virginia Woolf

“The unknown doesn’t bother me. I nod now and then to the beautiful women plucking the flowers in my gardens and I hear the…

— Nescio

“Sometimes you need to get lost in order to discover anything.”

— Katie Kacvinsky