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Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature QUOTES

Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature QUOTES

1 " Nature offers us a thousand simple pleasers- Plays of light and color, fragrance in the air, the sun's warmth on skin and muscle, the audible rhythm of life's stir and push- for the price of merely paying attention. What joy! But how unwilling or unable many of us are to pay this price in an age when manufactured sources of stimulation and pleasure are everywhere at hand. For me, enjoying nature's pleasures takes conscious choice, a choice to slow down to seed time or rock time, to still the clamoring ego, to set aside plans and busyness, and to simply to be present in my body, to offer myself up.


Respond to the above quote. Pay special attention to each of your five senses as you describe your surroundings. Also, you need to incorporate at least one metaphor and smile in your descriptions. "

― Lorraine Anderson , Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature

2 " Whenever I hear someone boast of having conquered a mountain by climbing it or a wild river by paddling it, I am struck by the foolishness of this attitude. It seems to me a pitiful bravado in the face of a great and powerful mystery, like whistling in the dark to give oneself courage. Worse, it arrogantly pits the ego against the matrix of being, conveying the harmful illusion that one creature can dominate the creation of which it is a part and on which it depends for its very life. "

― Lorraine Anderson , Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature

3 " There was a time in our culture, not long ago, when the essential role of men and women was to nurture and protect each other, to be caretakes of life and earth. At that time, when the sun sparkled on the sea of our Imagination as freshly as It sparkled on the sea itself, we thought of our world and each other in ways that were life-venerating and death-respecting. The porpoise school that weaves its history protectively around its common existence, the whales that tune body and mind in a continuous awareness of life, are not symbols of an alien mythology- they are evocative of what was once the core of human relationships.” Joan McIntyre "

― Lorraine Anderson , Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature

4 " The writing in this book gives us a vocabulary and a way of seeing. But ultimately, with these words resonating in our consciousness, we must turn to the book of nature itself. It matters how we think about and touch this place during our brief and precious time in the world…it can come to reside in us as surely as we reside in it. "

― Lorraine Anderson , Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature

5 " Some of my pleasantest rambles have been over these hills. One is hardly content to walk over them. The pure, bracing air, the open sky, give to us such a sense of freedom and relief that we want to bound along, like merry, light-hearted children. And here I have seen and felt the glorious, wondrous ever-changing beauty of the clouds, watching them for hours, until I have been tempted to think them the grandest and most beautiful of all God’s grand and beautiful works.”

Charlotte Forten Grimke, 1858, fifth generation descendant of an African slaves, Glimpses of New England "

― Lorraine Anderson , Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature