"Autumn was coming; the evergreens might not have noticed, but the sycamores did." p. 122
"Biology sees right and wrong as the same color in different light." p.143
"...Can't run from every whipstitch." p.136
"Do crawdads really sing? ... first you must go - all by yourself-- and set upa small camp in real wilderness. When you can feel the planet beneath your toes and the trees moving about, you must listen with all your ears, and -- I promise -- you will hear the crawdads sing. In fact, it will be a chorus." ~ Delia Owens
"Evil was not at play, just life pulsing on, even at the expense of some of the players." p.142
"Fireflies... Females got what they wanted - First a mate then a meal - just by changing their signals." p.142 "Fingers of Fog Flirted with the waves." p. 178
"Groping hands were only a taking, not a sharing or a Giving." p.162
"How much do you trade to defeat lonesomeness?" p.163
"Illogical behavior to fill an emptiness would not fulfill much more."
"Just means far in the bush where critters are wild, still behaving like critters." p.111
"For Kya, it was enough to be part of this natural sequence... She bonded to her planet and its life in a way few people are. Rooted solid in this earth. Born of this mother." p.363
"Like everything else in the universe, we tumble toward those of higher mass" p. 186
"Magnolia Mouth" p. 111 "Mussel-Monger" p. 146
"Nature is audacious enough to ensure that the males who send out dishonest signals or go from one female to the next almost always end up alone." p.183
"One glancing touch could flip her" p. 211
"Power of emotions as Painful as Pleasurable" p. 123
"Quick as a mouse escaping a lidless box, she slipped our the porch door before he saw her and ran into the woods, away from the lagoon." p. 209
"Runnels of back water seeped under the brush -- "Slinky reminders that the sea owned this land." p. 164
"Some of the seeds lie dormant in the dessiccated earth for decades, waiting, and when water finally comes home again, they burst through the soil...unfolding their faces." p. 113
"Truths everyone should know, yet somehow, even though they lay exposed all around, seem to lie in secret like the seeds."
"Unfortunately, gravity holds no sway on human thought, and the high school text still taught that apples fall to the ground because of a powerful force from the Earth." p. 286
Video of movie trailer
When in trouble, just let go. Go back to idle." p.41
eXplore the marsh: "Go as far as you can -- way out ...
Yonder where the crawdad's sing." p. 111
Zigzag dance p.142
