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Janisse Ray, born on February 2, 1962, is an American writer known for her focus on nature, the environment, and the relationship between humans and nature. Ray is renowned for her profound insights into the natural world and her strong advocacy for environmental protection.

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“Were my imagination greater I would grant stories to the souls lost to history. Were I able to hear with my bones I wold know the underside of their colossal silence.”

Writing Stories Death Imagination History Writer Stories Of People

Book:Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River

Source: Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River

“What I am saying is that lovely, whimsical, and soulful things happen in a garden, leaving a gardener giddy.”

Growing Garden Vegetables Gardening Flowers Gardener

Book:The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food

Source: The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food

“Perhaps no word exists in our terribly inadequate English language to name this abstract, emotional thing that is not forgiveness, is not forgetting, and also is both.”

Letting Go Forgiveness Trauma Trauma Healing Forgiving Others Forgetting The Past Forgiving Is Not Forgetting Forgetting The Pain

Book:Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans

Source: Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans

“Georgia Author Brenda Sutton Rose captures some of the conflicted and captivating characters of a rapidly changing South.”

Ecology Gay Marriage Gay Rights Nature S Beauty Southern Fiction Southern Lit Gay Protagonists Georgia Authors

Author:Janisse Ray

“A river can't forgive because it is only capable, in the first place, of love. A river loves the dumpers, the polluters, the slayers, the nest-thieves, the bird-killers, the dammers, the water-stealers. A river loves even the clear-cutters. But I can forgive. I am trying to be like the river.”

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Book:Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River

Source: Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River

“Most of us, most of our lives, are asked to live small. Most of us quit trying very young to live the bigness we know is possible.”

Dreams Possibility Living Life Visionary Human Potential Living Well Smallness Possibility Is Limitless

Book:Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans

Source: Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans

“Sometimes all we have is a little light that we can shine outward into a big darkness.”

Light Inspiration Activism Light And Darkness Shine Your Light World Change

Book:Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans

Source: Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans

“Here in the country, on a little farm in southern Georgia, I am building a quiet life of resistance. I am a radical peasant, and every day I take out my little hammer, and I keep building.”

Activism Resistance Radical Farming Rural Life Farmer Homesteading Farmer Quotes Homesteader

Book:The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food

Source: The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food

“I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.”

Stories Who I Am Landscape Ache

Author:Janisse Ray

“The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.”

Tree Childhood Landscape Occupation Fierce

Book:Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home

Source: Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home

“All I can say about Juliette of the Herbs is that it has made me look at how my life is now, still close to the earth, but not close enough...I'm happy to have seen a glimpse into her life. It encourages me to live as radically as I want. Tish's film is a grand one.”

Want Looks Made Stills I Can Enough Earth Film Life Is Glimpse Herbs

Author:Janisse Ray

About the Author

Born: February 2, 1962
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 11

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