Matthew Bizer’s Reviews > Is a River Alive? > Status Update

“We look too much with our eyes, and not enough with our spirits.” - Rita Mestokosho

“How we imagine the matter of water matters. To recognize its ceaseless migrancy is to recognize that we live in a fundamentally decentralized world, engaged always in multiple forms of relation - and that power can be crucial in determining the capacity of those relations to animate or to exhaust their participants. The hydrological cycle comprises violence as well as vapour, injustice as well as precipitation.”

"To change a landscape for the better, you must first have the ability to dream — to dream a good dream. […] Before the people of Ennore Creek can shape a good future for this place, they need to be helped to dream again.”

“We are living in mythological times. Truly, we have never been modern.”

“Rivers are easily wounded. But given a chance, they heal themselves with remarkable speed. Their life *pours* back.”