Santinix

“In Ireland, the rivers find their source in the Otherworld; specifically in an Otherworld well or spring which, bubbling up from the earth, is surrounded by trees of wisdom. Five streams, said to be the five senses, flow from the spring. Salmon swim in that spring and eat the hazelnuts which fall, occasionally, into the water.  To eat a salmon from this water is to receive poetic inspiration and to drink from the water itself, in ecological interpretation, is to enter into a way of being that is consonant with the underlying patterns of the cosmos.”
― Jason Kirkey, Salmon in the Spring: The Ecology of Celtic Spirituality

“The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of an exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by land as it is by genes.”
― Jason Kirkey, Salmon in the Spring: The Ecology of Celtic Spirituality

“The reality of industrialism.... is that for each boon it grants to our lives it offers a corresponding note of destruction. One person’s bar of chocolate is another person’s slave labor; one city, the destruction of a watershed. Everything comes at a cost”
― Jason Kirkey, Salmon in the Spring: The Ecology of Celtic Spirituality

“To be native to a place means that our minds are rooted there, derive their nourishment from the familiarity of the landscape and from the stories that are woven into it. Mind is deeply involved with the land.”
― Jason Kirkey, Salmon in the Spring: The Ecology of Celtic Spirituality