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“We need hope as much as we need bread and meat,” he interrupted, his eyes clear for a rare moment. “We need hope, or else we cannot endure.
“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
“Hot fury flared within Anna. “Why do we bother?” she said. “Why do we try to fit in when we can just take care of ourselves?” “It’s not about fitting in, it’s about finding balance. Rattlesnakes and field mice. Owls and rabbits. Alligators and deer. They’re predator and prey, yet they share the same ground. Mind you that the people in town aren’t predators and that we on the reservation aren’t prey. You’d think we’d be able to share the same ground. You’d think it’d be easy.”
― Sisters of the Lost Nation
― Sisters of the Lost Nation
“I’ve been finding the supports and community to nourish it … And it is starting to germinate … A new beginning … It’s coming … We are who we’ve been waiting for.”
― A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars
― A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars
“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
“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
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