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We Americans are reluctant to learn a foreign language of our own species, let alone another species. But imagine the possibilities.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
— Jan 21, 2024 03:16PM
Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Jen R.
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Nature made its way back into my life; it was not larger than life but life itself, a steady contact with nature that allowed me the greatest freedom to work and to grieve… it was precisely in the sweat and chill, the scents and odors of the world without a screen to seal off all senses but sight-and in the release from language- that nature could do its work..
Debra Kang Dean essay
— Feb 05, 2024 07:10AM
Debra Kang Dean essay
Jen R.
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The older, original name for my people, "Anishinaabe," describes a larger group of Native Americans in the Great Lakes region. This name goes back to the creation stories and is usually interpreted to mean "original or spontaneous being."
beautiful essay by Melissa K Nelson
— Feb 04, 2024 09:05PM
beautiful essay by Melissa K Nelson
Jen R.
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The Rarámuri considered many of these plants … to have become plants after they first lived as humans.
-Enrique Salmon essay
Tom Porter, a Mohawk elder who no longer lives at Akwesasne, remembers the day when his family took their fishing nets and laid them on the banks of the Saint Lawrence, leaving them there to return to the earth, for the fish were not safe to eat.
-Joseph Bruchac essay
— Jan 30, 2024 01:22PM
-Enrique Salmon essay
Tom Porter, a Mohawk elder who no longer lives at Akwesasne, remembers the day when his family took their fishing nets and laid them on the banks of the Saint Lawrence, leaving them there to return to the earth, for the fish were not safe to eat.
-Joseph Bruchac essay
Jen R.
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Ultimately nature rules. That is the great, democratic gift the earth offers us- that sweet death to which we all inevitably go- into that final communion.
bell hooks essay
— Jan 22, 2024 06:02PM
bell hooks essay
