Robin Wall Kimmerer on family

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.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.

Ring Lardner1885–1933

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap on-a-rope.

Bill Cosbyborn 1937