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“For all of us, becoming indigenous to a place means living as if your children’s future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material and spiritual, depended on it.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“As Nietzsche put it, if you have a why to live, you can bear almost any how.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Ceremony focuses attention so that attention becomes intention. If you stand together and profess a thing before your community, it holds you accountable.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“Yet it is an iron rule of history that every imagined hierarchy disavows its fictional origins and claims to be natural and inevitable.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind