Robin Wall Kimmerer on ideas

All powers have two sides, the power to create and the power to destroy. We must recognize them both, but invest our gifts on the side of creation.

As we give thanks for the Earth, will we live in such a way that the Earth can be grateful for us?

Time is not a river running inexorably to the sea, but the sea itself⁠—its tides that appear and disappear, the fog that rises to become rain in a different river. All things that were will come again.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle384–322 BC

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One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

Victor Hugo1802–1885