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“Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“Crowfoot, of the Blackfoot Confederacy (1890) … What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow, which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.”
― Melusine Draco, Traditional Witchcraft for the Woods and Forests: A Witch's Guide to the Woodland with Guided Meditations and Pathworking

“To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the domestic plants and animals - obviously because of the importance of these things to the household. And there have been times, one of which is now, when some people have tried to practice a proper human husbandry of the nondomestic creatures in recognition of the dependence of our households and domestic life upon the wild world. Husbandry is the name of all practices that sustain life by connecting us conservingly to our places and our world; it is the art of keeping tied all the strands in the living network that sustains us.

And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture's manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry.”
― Wendell Berry, Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food

“Benedictine Anselm Grün, who used a very beautiful metaphor that went like this: Before you are born, God pronounces a word or a sentence over you. Then, once you get here, your goal is to live your life in such a way that other people—the people around you—can hear it.”
― Adam Bucko, Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation