celebrating gaia

Although I did not call her by that name then,

my love for the Wild Woman began when I was a little child.

I was an aesthete rather than an athlete,

and my only wish was to be an ecstatic wanderer.

Rather than chairs and tables, 
I preferred the ground, trees, and caves,

for in theses places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God.

-Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Women Who Run with the Wolves