A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will…

- Jane Hirshfield

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

- Jane Hirshfield

Sam Hamill is a writer unabashedly taking his place within the community of literature and the community of all sentient beings-his fidelity is to th…

- Jane Hirshfield

At some point I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it, that you need to agree to the entire experience, t…

- Jane Hirshfield

This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.

- Jane Hirshfield

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

- Jane Hirshfield

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

- Jane Hirshfield

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

- Jane Hirshfield

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

- Jane Hirshfield