Miles Olson > Quotes

“How is domestication a violent process? A living thing’s wildness is something potent: its strength lies in every cell of the body. Nothing was born to live in captivity, to be tamed, subdued and made submissive, and nothing accepts such a role without being forced.”
― Miles Olson, Unlearn, Rewild: Earth Skills, Ideas and Inspiration for the Future Primitive

“Many philosophers believe that the limits of one’s language are the limits of one’s world. The language we speak, think and receive information in shapes our reality in profound ways. It is a filter through which we perceive life, and as such, a filter that limits our understanding of it. I’ve referred to the language of tracks a few times already, and do believe that there is a language which they speak. The more one becomes fluent in such languages of the land, the more expansive the reality they live in becomes. The forests and fields grow more alive and intense as we pay closer attention.”
― Miles Olson, The Compassionate Hunter's Guidebook: Hunting from the Heart