Robin Wall Kimmerer

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• 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.

  Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 212

  • Power

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

  from interviews and conversations (2015)

  • Nature
  • Thanksgiving

• 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.

  Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 258

  • Ideas

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy