It is dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourished and fatigued that he won’t stoop to pick up a penny. But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.

~ Annie Dillard

Sunlight and Fog, Stimpson Family Nature Preserve, Bellingham, Washington 2018