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If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. From ‘How Surely Gravity’s Law’ by Rainer Maria Rilke Translated from the German by Anita Barrows and Joanna May1
“Just,” he repeated. “Just the truth.” “Honesty, truth. Authenticity. However you wish to call it.” “That is, in fact, a lot to ask.” She gave a shrug. “But is anything worth having without it?”
― A Rogue of One's Own
― A Rogue of One's Own
“Yawe—the animate to be. I am, you are, s/he is. To speak of those possessed with life and spirit we must say yawe. By what linguistic confluence do Yahweh of the Old Testament and yawe of the New World both fall from the mouths of the reverent? Isn’t this just what it means, to be, to have the breath of life within, to be the offspring of Creation? The language reminds us, in every sentence, of our kinship with all of the animate world.”
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“For the greater part of human history, and in places in the world today, common resources were the rule. But some invented a different story, a social construct in which everything is a commodity to be bought and sold. The market economy story has spread like wildfire, with uneven results for human well-being and devastation for the natural world. But it is just a story we have told ourselves and we are free to tell another, to reclaim the old one.”
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“What if resting, all by itself, is the real act of holiness? What if honoring the gift of our only life in this gorgeous world means taking time every week to slow down? To sleep? To breathe? The natural world has never needed us more than it needs us now, but we can’t be of much use to it if we remain in a perpetual state of exhaustion and despair.”
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
“More and more in all of my work I find the rhythm and flow which came out of that time with the land and its creatures, which is now part of me. I’ve learned how to show up and pay attention in a new more authentic way which informs my daily life.”
― If Women Rose Rooted: A Life-Changing Journey to Authenticity and Belonging
― If Women Rose Rooted: A Life-Changing Journey to Authenticity and Belonging
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