{"author":"Melissa Coleman","author_id":"Melissa+Coleman","total_quotes":2,"quotes":[{"text":"Though his health and family had been broken in the process, he'd found his purpose in life — to share the ancient key discovered anew in the garden: if we feed the earth, it will feed us.I see that is the secret, too, to living. Though the earth demands its sacrifices, spring will always return.","author":"Melissa Coleman","tags":["life-and-death","nature-of-things","seasons"],"id":4799,"author_id":"Melissa+Coleman"},{"text":"God was something I did not understand the way kids who went to church did. They said God was a man in the sky with white hair and a beard like Santa. This seemed strange to me. When I thought of God, I imagined only mist over the pond, a sliver of moon in a dark sky, scatterings of stars, birdsong.","author":"Melissa Coleman","tags":["god","mystical","spiritual","spirituality","universe"],"id":249507,"author_id":"Melissa+Coleman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2,"pages":1}}