154 quotes
We are all the product of our worldviews—even scientists who claim pure objectivity.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
The sphere of a wise woman is beyond herself, beyond her family, beyond the human community, embracing the planet, mothering the earth.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
Respect one another, support one another, bring your gift to the world and receive the gifts of others, and there will be enough for all.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
Naturalists live in a world of wounds that only they can see.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
A teacher comes, they say, when you are ready. And if you ignore its presence, it will speak to you more loudly. But you have to be quiet to hear.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
Science and traditional knowledge may ask different questions and speak different languages, but they may converge when both truly listen to the plants.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
To be indigenous is to protect life on earth.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
The world has a way of guiding your steps.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
Through reciprocity the gift is replenished. All of our flourishing is mutual.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
We spill over into the world and the world spills over into us. The earth, that first among good mothers, gives us the gift that we cannot provide ourselves.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
Sustainable harvesting can be the way we treat a plant with respect, by respectfully receiving its gift.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
I like the ecological idea of aging as progressive enrichment, rather than progressive loss.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
The language reminds us, in every sentence, of our kinship with all of the animate world.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
A place becomes a home when it sustains you, when it feeds you in body as well as spirit.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
It is an honor to be the guardian of another species—an honor within each person's reach that we too often forget.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
The earth is so richly endowed that the least we can do in return is to pay attention.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
Ignorance makes it too easy to jump to conclusions about what we don't understand.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
To become indigenous is to grow the circle of healing to include all of Creation.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
There are some aches witch hazel can't assuage; for those, we need each other.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
When we call a place by name it is transformed from wilderness to homeland.
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)