The Best Artists Know What To Leave

I Like Living In The City Where I Have All My Books And Music And Can Go Out To Buy That Night's Dinner Or Easily See A Band. But I Also Like The Wild Places, Especially Hiking In The Desert And The Eastern Woodlands. Do I Have To Choose?

The Best Artists Know What To Leave Out.

When All's Said And Done, All Roads Lead To The Same End. So It's Not So Much Which Road You Take, As How You Take It.

All Forests Have Their Own Personality. I Don't Just Mean The Obvious Differences, Like How An English Woodland Is Different From A Central American Rain Forest, Or Comparing Tracts Of West Coast Redwoods To The Saguaro Forests Of The American Southwest... They Each Have Their Own Gossip, Their Own Sound, Their Own Rustling Whispers And Smells. A Voice Speaks Up When You Enter Their Acres That Can't Be Mistaken For One You'd Hear Anyplace Else, A Voice True To Those Particular Tress, Individual Rather Than Of Their Species.

The Faerie Represent The Beauty We Don't See, Or Even Choose To Ignore. That's Why I'll Paint Them In Junkyards, Or Fluttering Around A Sleeping Wino. No Place Or Person Is Immune To Spirit. Look Hard Enough, And Everything Has A Story. Everybody Is Important."- Jilly Coppercorn