Faulkner – The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem]

“Because crows and sparrows get shot out of trees or drowned in floods or killed in hurricanes and fires, but not hawks. And maybe I can be the consort of a falcon, even if I am a sparrow.”

- William Faulkner, The Wild Palms

Emerson – Introduction to “Nature”

“We must trust the perfection of creation so far as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Introduction – “Nature”