I cannot look in any direction without seeing creations of God. Therefore, nothing is insignificant, and everything worthy of respect and care. Nothing is second-class. What God has made is of value. In my arrogance as a human being I have dismissed and demeaned the creations of the very God I profess to love. I see my value judgments and my assumed superiority with such clarity, and ask God and his creation to forgive me. The nature I am encountering in this wilderness is my own.

— Paula D'Arcy, Gift of the Red Bird