Robin Wall Kimmerer on nature

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?

When a language dies, so much more than words are lost. Language is the dwelling place of ideas that do not exist anywhere else. It is a prism through which to see the world.

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

Albert Einstein1879–1955

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle384–322 BCPolitics, Book I, 1253a.8

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Baltasar Gracián1601–1658

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