Eric Z

“In indigenous ways of knowing, it is understood that each living being has a particular role to play. Every being is endowed with certain gifts, its own intelligence, its own spirit, its own story. Our stories tell us that the Creator gave these to us, as original instructions. The foundation of education is to discover that gift within us and learn to use it well.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“Biologists may make unsuitable dinner conversation, but we are seldom bored.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

“Life has a way of talking to the future. It’s called memory. It’s called genes.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory