Town planning and mapping are not neutral activities. They have been used and continue to be used as instruments of erasure, replacement and control over land, populations and infrastructure.
Anna Borrie
I learned reverence from burnout.
Michelle Carrera
All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop
Kabir
Rivers are just as alive as you and me. They have a body called the catchment, the mouth and the delta; cells of water molecules; organs of wetlands and riparian zones; and like us, a circulatory system. We're inseparable from the waters of the world. We rely on these living bodies for our very survival. We're inseparable from the waters of the world.
Basia Irland
The earth is not a resource to be used but a community to which we belong.
Terry Tempest Williams
We are all, whether we admit it to ourselves or not, in a committed relationship with the natural world. We are part of its fabric. There can be no “us” without “it.” My work is an expression of this interconnectedness.
Jeanne K Simmons
Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.
Ursula Goodenough
Transferring pollen between stamens of the aubergine plants on my balcony by hand with a paintbrush, I question how to restore a habitat for pollinators. The simple answer seems to be to plant flowers, as this seems to be their natural habitat, bodies covered in pollen grains sipping nectar with their long tongues.
Anna Borrie
Language moves in a certain direction: softer sounds transcend, leaving behind the hard sounds. Perhaps that is also the direction of life—hard nutshells shedding for seeds to awaken, water wearing away the rock, and the human spirit ascending from havoc, only with humility.
Priyanka Singh Parihar
My big hope would be that if people change their aesthetic perceptions around wildfire, maybe we can start using it again as a tool to help prevent these catastrophic fires that we have.
