"Turtle Island" Quotes
Exploration of nature, spirituality, and indigenous cultures in North America through the lens of poetry.
poetry | 112 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The wild requires that we learn the terrain, nod to all the plants and animals and birds, ford the streams and cross the ridges, and tell a good story when we get back home.
Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
The first step, shall be to lose the way.
The world is our consciousness, and it surrounds us.
The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. We need both.
To find the Buddha, look within. Deep inside you are ten thousand flowers. Each flower blossoms ten thousand times. Each blossom has ten thousand petals. You might want to see a specialist.
The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.
Stay together, learn the flowers, go light.
The wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask.
