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“Someday we will become something we haven't even yet imagined.”
― Dreamers
― Dreamers
“We live in a world where we don’t see the ramifications of what we do to others because we don’t live with them. It would be a whole lot harder for an investment banker to rip off people with subprime mortgages if he actually had to live with the people he was ripping off.
If we could see one another’s pain and empathize with one another, it would never be worth it to us to commit the crimes in the first place.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
If we could see one another’s pain and empathize with one another, it would never be worth it to us to commit the crimes in the first place.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“Iwígara channels the idea that all life, spiritual and physical, is interconnected in a continual cycle [and] expresses the belief that all life shares the same breath. We are all related to, and play a role in, the complexity of life.” Knowing that I am related to everything around me and share breath with all living things helps me to focus on my responsibility to honor all forms of life. Or, as native writer N. Scott Momaday puts it, everything around us has “being-ness.”
― Iwigara: The Kinship of Plants and People: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science
― Iwigara: The Kinship of Plants and People: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science
“To love a place is not enough. We must find ways to heal it.”
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“And still I urge you to struggle. Struggle for the memory of your ancestors. Struggle for wisdom. Struggle for the warmth of The Mecca. Struggle for your grandmother and grandfather, for your name. But do not struggle for the Dreamers. Hope for them. Pray for them, if you are so moved. But do not pin your struggle on their conversion. The Dreamers will have to learn to struggle themselves, to understand that the field for their Dream, the stage where they have painted themselves white, is the deathbed of us all.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
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