Gail Collins-Ranadive > Quotes

“it may be time to stop worrying about what we are making extinct and start nurturing what will outlast us.”
― Gail Collins-Ranadive, Chewing Sand: An Eco-Spiritual Taste of the Mojave Desert

“Mothers are the only gods in whom all the world believes Joseph Campbell claimed. And this makes psychological sense: all children come forth through women, but boys must learn to separate from the mother by making her other, while girls identify with her, as they will become mothers themselves.”
― Gail Collins-Ranadive, Chewing Sand: An Eco-Spiritual Taste of the Mojave Desert

“not before it sets off soft pink shades in stucco and stones, turns the mountains from sun burnt orange to shadowed blue.”
― Gail Collins-Ranadive, Chewing Sand: An Eco-Spiritual Taste of the Mojave Desert

“Thomas Berry was right: we’re transitioning out of the Cenozoic and into the Ecozoic, an era when we humans become mutually beneficial to our Earth. But for now we seem to be trapped in the Anthropocene Age, with humans poised to create the next great extinction.”
― Gail Collins-Ranadive, Chewing Sand: An Eco-Spiritual Taste of the Mojave Desert

“And Emerson once claimed that we Americans needed the boundless West in order to become ourselves, to stop being pseudo-Europeans.”
― Gail Collins-Ranadive, Chewing Sand: An Eco-Spiritual Taste of the Mojave Desert