“But because we are already down on our knees, we stay there and peer more closely at the verdant green plant life that straggles the edge of the road here.”
Stern, Lesely. “A Garden or a Grave? The Canyonic Landscape of the Tijuana-San Diego Region.” Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, ed. by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan, and Heather Anne Swanson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. pp. 25-6.
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Project Muse
“How does a change in vocabulary save your life? Replacing one word with another word for the same thought—can this actually transform your feelings about things?”
Howe, Fanny. The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2003. p. 47.
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University of California Press
“Kumeyaay lived in a relationship of mutualism with the natural world. In fact, there was no word for Nature as Kumeyaay life was so intertwined that the concept of humans as separate from nature was a foreign concept.”
Connolly Miskwish, Michael. Where Have All The Fires Gone?; An Indigenous Perspective On the Fire Relationship. Presentation. Humanities Studio at Pomona College, Pomona, California. October 15, 2020.
“Early Kumeyaay people believed that humans must interact respectfully with nature and co-exist with all living things, believing all life forms to be related.
Many different techniques of plant horticulture were developed, by learning the best times and ways of harvesting.”
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
“Kumeyaay people very purposefully tended, harvested and protected their favorite plants and animals, learning the best times and methods of harvesting, passing on this knowledge and way of life from generation to generation. Before harvesting a plant or killing an animal, a person would ask permission, offer a prayer of thanksgiving, and tell their intention for use of the plant or animal.”
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
“every second, minute, every hour, yes, black lives do matter, alive
have always mattered, breathing, magical, beautiful, alive,
living does matter for those who know meaning lives here
when lungs take in breath, makes us whole, creative, does matter
when air is sweet beneath the sun, wondrous, magical as music, poetry,
yes, black lives do matter, all life matters every day light rises
with the sun, when we welcome the moon, shadows wavering like breath…”
Troupe, Quincy. “A Dirge for Michael Brown, Tamir Rice & Trayvon Martin.” Seduction: New Poems, 2013-2018. Evanston, IL: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2019. p. 31.
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Northwestern University Press
“in the light of the street-lamp a dozen leaves
cling to the twigs of our tree for dear life
an eager star is dogging the moon
feast you who cross the bridge
this cold twilight
on these honeycombs of light the buildings of Manhattan”
Reznikoff, Charles, and Milton Hindus. “Jerusalem the Golden.” Selected Letters of Charles Reznikoff, 1917-1976. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1997. p. 116.
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"You shall put away evil from among you and your eyes shall not pity:
Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe;
As a man does to his neighbor it shall be done to him.”
Reznikoff, Charles, edited by Seamus Cooney. "Israel" The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918: 1975. Boston: David R. Godine, 2005. p. 71.
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WorldCat
“From the second moment of life, one can test experience, be
eager to please, have the mouth of a scholar, hands never
at rest, there is no such thing as objectivity but that
doesn’t mean everything is unclear and one doesn’t fail
to choose the next moment for a long time”
Hejinian, Lyn. Happily. Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 2000. p. 30.
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Litmus Press
“These characteristics, although not delightful to lumbermen (‘overripe’), are what make an ancient forest more than a stand of timber: it is a palace of organisms, a heaven for many beings, a temple where life deeply investigates the puzzle of itself. Living activity goes right down to and under the ‘ground’—the litter, the duff.”
Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p. 128.
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BeWild ReWild
“Reinhabitory refers to the tiny number of persons who come out of the industrial societies (having collected or squandered the fruits of eight thousand years of civilization) and then start to turn back to the land, back to place. This comes for some with the rational and scientific realization of interconnectedness and planetary limits. But the actual demands of a life committed to a place, and living somewhat by the sunshine green-plant energy that is concentrating in that spot, are so physically and intellectually intense that it is a moral and spiritual choice as well.”
Snyder, Gary. "Reinhabitation." Manoa 25, no. 1 (2013): 48. Accessed September 1, 2021.
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JSTOR
“In this world-experience rationality does not exist apart from the whole, but the understanding searches ever to picture the self in the ununderstandable. The human spirit draws its life from a tree larger and more various than knowing, and reason stands in need of a gift, “‘the gift of the queen to them that wander with her in exile.’”
Duncan, Robert. From “Rites of Participation.” In Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse toward an Ethnopoetics, edited by Jerome and Diane Rothenberg, 331. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1983.
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University of California Press
“What is most impressive about this spectacle—so calculated to upset our Western conceptions of the theater that many people will deny that it has any theatrical quality at all, whereas it is the finest example of pure theater that we have been privileged to see— what is impressive and disconcerting for us Europeans is the admirable intellec-tuality that one feels sparkling throughout, in the dense and subtle fabric of the gestures, in the infinitely varied modulations of the voice, in that downpour of sound, as of a vast forest dripping and coming to life, and in the equally sonorous interlocking of the movements. From a gesture to a cry or a sound there is no transition: everything corresponds, as if through mysterious passageways etched right into the brain!”
Artaud, Antonin. From “On the Balinese Theater.” In Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse toward an Ethnopoetics, edited by Jerome and Diane Rothenberg, 237. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1983.
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University of California Press
“The circle of being is not physical; it is dynamic and alive. It is what lives and moves and knows, and all the life-forms we recognize— animals, plants, rocks, winds— partake of this greater life.”
Gunn Allen, Paula. “The Sacred Hoop: A Contemporary Indian Perspective on American Indian Literature.” In Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse toward an Ethnopoetics, edited by Jerome and Diane Rothenberg, 177. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1983.
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University of California Press