Hannah Lewis > Quotes

“The myth of production cancels the necessity for reciprocity with regard to the donor environment,” he states. It objectifies other life-forms, putting people separate from and above rather than within the circle of life.”
― Hannah Lewis, Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World

“In nature, we have all the allies we need in this struggle, if only we choose to acknowledge them as such.”
― Hannah Lewis, Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World

“To elaborate on the cloth method, imagine a single species as a thread. No matter how lovely the color or texture of that thread, it is fragile and rather useless on its own. Only when woven together with multiple threads does it become a functional fabric, which is stronger the denser the weave. On the other hand, the loss of any one thread can begin to unravel the cloth.”
― Hannah Lewis, Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World

“It’s not easy, because the potential collapse of civilization is rather a taboo topic.”
― Hannah Lewis, Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World

“Get started walking and you will soon have company. You may not have many fellow travelers at first, but the momentum grows.”
― Hannah Lewis, Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World

“This was their forest, and I was excited to see what it would become for them: an enchanted woods to explore, a place to discover wildlife, a little beating heart at the edge of town.”
― Hannah Lewis, Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World

“To most of us, the landscape into which we were born looks perfectly normal, as thought it has always looked more or less that way.”
― Hannah Lewis, Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World

“The Western world’s broad acceptance of the concept of agricultural “production” is not merely a semantic issue. Morisot explains that it is a cultural mythology that relieves us of any sense of debt toward the ecosystem processes that generate the plant and animal species populating our fields and pastures.”
― Hannah Lewis, Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World