the rix mix

"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection
of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another."
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn."
-Paul Klee

"Besides the Autumn poets sing
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the Haze—"
-Emily Dickinson

"Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how
economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place?"
-Annie Dillard

"The marigolds are
the last to go,
spiteful of seasons,
a colony of tiny
orange petals grouped
around a mystery."
-Bob Rixon