Quotes

From the first time I put pen to paper, I've been passionate about space. Where we spent our childhood shapes who we are and how we live. If I'd grown up in the rain forest instead of in a small prairie city, I'd be a different person. Place, I believe, also influences who we love and how we enact that love.

There's a terrible loneliness to being human because of the ways we've separated ourselves from the natural world and endangered other life forms, from old-growth trees to mountain caribou to codfish. The optimistic side of me hopes that in singing the praises of creatures different from ourselves, I'm affirming their holiness and vulnerability.