Love Notes From The Hollow Tree Quotes

“I hope there is life elsewhere in the universe.
I don't care about aliens and advanced technology.
I just want there to be one planet that is all moss.
A perfect sphere of soft, green carpet.
I hope it exists and that no human foot ever dents its perfect, plush surface.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Love Notes From The Hollow Tree

“We are not how the universe knows itself.
We are how humans know the universe.
Words and thoughts are our way of knowing, not THE way of knowing.
Translating a mountain into a word, into a measurement, does not bring new knowledge into the world, it brings new knowledge into us. The mountain was perfectly in touch with its own wholeness without neurons, without language, without learning our name for it.
We may have spotted the shores of understanding from our small boat, but we certainly didn't invent them.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Love Notes From The Hollow Tree

“Lives aren’t completed.
They’re concluded.
You are, and forever will be, unfinished.
This is nature.
Cycles and spectrums.
Moments and seasons.
Do you ask when the weather will be complete? The spring finished?
Your life won’t have one point or purpose.
You’re lovelier than that.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Love Notes From The Hollow Tree

“Moss is 300m yrs old.
Home on every continent.
No roots. No towering trunks,
yet it tasted the air before the first feather,
before shrews stirred the leaf litter.
When your mind hisses like a kettle,
look to your elder, to the green lessons
of soft, simple quiet beneath the sun.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Love Notes From The Hollow Tree

“See a bird and dismiss it.
See a bird and learn its species.
See a bird and study its behavior.
See a bird and question the physics of flight.
See a bird and trace its DNA back to the dinosaurs.
Life can pass over us unnoticed or be rich in poetry.
Curiosity is worth the effort.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Love Notes From The Hollow Tree