368 Quotes by Charles de Lint

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.

Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.

The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

I've always been interested in the outsider.

Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.

Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.

Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.

What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.

Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker.