“By patiently observing and experimenting over thousands of years, the Kumeyaay shared the land with the native creatures in a sustainable way, taking only as much of a resource as was needed, leaving some for other animals.”
Connolly Miskwish, Michael, Stan Rodriguez, and Martha Rodriguez. Kumeyaay Heritage and Conservation (HC) Project Learning Landscapes Educational Curriculum. p. 48. Laguna Resource Services, INC., Kumeyaay Diegueño Land Conservancy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. August 1, 2016. Accessed July 2020.
California Department of Parks and Recreation
“Men tore their faces open chewing saguaros and prickly pears, leaving gutted plants that looked like animals had torn them apart with their claws.”
Urrea, Luis Alberto. The Devil’s Highway : a True Story 1st ed. New York: Little, Brown, 2004.
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Little, Brown and Company
“Only a single figure illustrates his statements, and while in this two cells are shown which undoubtedly appear as though they might be in the act of leaving the ectoderm to enter the blood space, still in the absence of further illustration, or more precise statement, this instance cannot appeal to one as being necessarily more than a deceptive appearance.”
Ritter, William Emerson. Budding in Compound Ascidians Based on Studies on Goodsiria and Perophora. Boston: Ginn & Company, 1896. p. 180.
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Google Books
“The stratigraphy of rocks, layers of pollen in a swamp, the outward expanding circles in the trunk of a tree, can be seen as texts. The calligraphy of rivers winding back and forth over the land leaving layer upon layer of traces of previous riverbeds is text. The layers of history in language become a text of language itself.”
Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p. 66.
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BeWild ReWild
“But what can we now mean by the words wild and for that matter nature? Languages meander like great rivers leaving oxbow traces over forgotten beds, to be seen only from the air or by scholars.”
Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p. 7.
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BeWild ReWild
“In a few minutes the cloud withers to a mesh of dim filaments and disappears, leaving the sky perfectly clear and bright, every dust particle wiped and washed out of it.
Muir, John. The Writings of John Muir: Sierra Edition. Vol. II. The Mountains of California. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. p. 4.
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