"Even though many circumstances we find ourselves in seem very important and earth shattering, will these circumstances really have an effect on anyone but ourselves? Will the trees stop reaching to the sun? Will the rivers cease to flow? Will the sparrow sing its last song? No, and yet we treat these circumstances as such that we miss out on the changing leaves, babbling stream, and the song of a bird that experiences the world in a totally different perspective.

" --Julie Peterson