Top 7 Quotes by Brenda Peterson

If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.

If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.

Brenda Peterson

Beautiful, Pain, Writing

It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great blue herons, the bald eagles, the salmon, that we are sorry.

Brenda Peterson

Sorry, Ocean, Sea

Brenda Peterson (2000). “Singing to the Sound: Visions of Nature, Animals & Spirit”, Newsage Press

Because animals seem to dwell in the present moment, because their own presence is so instinctive, their attention so unwavering, the offer us a different kind of compassion than humans do. Anyone is lucky to have both human and animal comfort in their lives.

Brenda Peterson

Compassion, Animal, Comfort

Brenda Peterson (2002). “Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals”, p.159, W. W. Norton & Company

The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me, feeding the seagulls is one of those everyday prayers.

Brenda Peterson

Prayer, Believe, Axes

Brenda Peterson (2000). “Singing to the Sound: Visions of Nature, Animals & Spirit”, Newsage Press

It had been this way since my beginning, born on a forest lookout station in the High Sierras, surrounded by millions of acres of wilderness and many more animals than humans. Since infancy, the first faces I imprinted, the first faces I ever really loved, were animal.

Brenda Peterson

Animal, Acres, Way

Brenda Peterson (2002). “Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life that links humans to the natural world. Grounded in best science, inspired by her intimate knowledge of the wolves she studies, she offers us a luminous portrait of the ecological relationships that are essential for our well-being in a rapidly changing world. The Wolf's Tooth calls for a conservation vision that involves rewilding the earth and honoring all our relations.

Brenda Peterson

Web Of Life, Vision, World