The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.