Allison’s Reviews > Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants > Status Update

"What will happen to a joke when no one can hear it anymore? How lonely those words will be when their power is gone. Where will they go? Off to join those stories that can never be told again."

"Yes, I have learned the names of all the bushes; but I have yet to learn their songs."

"What else can you offer the Earth, which has everything? What else can you give, but something of yourself? A homemade ceremony — a ceremony that makes a home."