Essemsee

“When the world began, it was very small. Songs blew the earth up to its present size. Songs turn frustration into power, anxiety into comfort. Like a blanket, they form a zone of protection around the singer. Sing on the way home alone at night in a fearful place and the song will move out into the space around you. Is this not prayer, sounds that come from our breath, lifting the spirit as they meet the air?”
― Ellen Meloy, Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild

“How, in our modern world, can we find our way to understand the earth as a gift again, to make our relations with the world sacred again?”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer

“The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“I am firmly convinced that we must never judge political movements by their aims, no matter how loudly proclaimed or how sincerely upheld, but only by the means they use to realize these aims.”
― Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations