"High Tide in Tucson" Quotes
"High Tide in Tucson" is a collection of essays that explore nature, family, and the human connection to the world around us.
nonfiction | 273 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window.
The very notion of a lack of time is a sure sign of a lack of time, and the more stressed one becomes, the less time there seems to be.
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life...all of our life.
