Keith H. Basso > Quotes

“Knowledge of places is closely linked to knowledge of the self, to grasping one's position in the larger scheme of things, including one's own community, and to securing a confident sense of who one is a person.”
― Keith H. Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache

“You can’t live long without water and you can’t live a long time without wisdom. You need to drink both.”
― Keith H. Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache

“one must acknowledge that local understandings of external realities are fashioned from local cultural materials, and that, knowing little or nothing of the latter, one’s ability to make appropriate sense of “what is” and “what occurs” in another’s environment is bound to be deficient.”
― Keith H. Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache