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We are all the product of our worldviews—even scientists who claim pure objectivity.

— Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

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The teachings tell us that a harvest is made honorable by what you give in return for what you take.

Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

Doing science with awe and humility is a powerful act of reciprocity with the more-than-human world.

Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

Names are the way we humans build relationship, not only with each other but with the living world.

Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

A path scented with sweetgrass leads to a landscape of forgiveness and healing for all who need it.

Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

The truth of our relationship with the soil is written more clearly on the land than in any book.

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Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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