“Our skills and works are but tiny reflections of the wild world that is innately and loosely orderly. There is nothing like stepping away from the road and heading into a new part of the watershed. Not for the sake of newness, but for the sense of coming home to our whole terrain.”
Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p.154.
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BeWild ReWild
“That Heaven exists above whether there is drought or fire or water or rain down below. That at this moment somewhere below the clouds there is a fire dancing & playing & making best friends with what it destroy.”
Hoang, Lily. "Befriending People." Fairy Tale Review 3 (2007): p. 51. Accessed May 25, 2021.
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“Talk & walk you talk & walk all day long, isn't that true & in all that time of your talking & walking it's only today this morning that you realize you've been talking & walking all by yourself & often people stare.”
Hoang, Lily. "Befriending People." Fairy Tale Review 3 (2007): p. 51. Accessed May 25, 2021.
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“We stand and walk around the table, looking down, like birds or a navy helicopter hovering. The map is colored and contoured. You see both continuities and divisions that are impossible to discern in the landscape at ground level. What the segueing from green in the north to khaki in the south registers, for instance, is the flow and diversion of water, different kinds of land use, and a differ- ent distribution of resources.”
Lesley Stern. “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. p. 19.
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Project Muse
“The Visitors Center is built on the site of a garbage dump. This native garden bordering on a wetland and estuary is a landscape that has been restored, reclaimed as public land—through long and sustained political battles involving many agencies and alliances— and now it is being preserved.”
Lesley Stern. “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. p. 17.
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Project Muse
“We know that all we have to do to redirect that wealth and that energy and channel it into food for the hungry, and to clothes for the needy; into schools, hospitals, housing, and all the material things that are necessary, all the material things that are necessary in order for human beings to lead decent, comfortable lives – in order to lead lives which are devoid of all the pressures of racism…”
Davis, Angela. "The Gates to Freedom." Speech Delivered at the Embassy Auditorium, Embassy Auditorium, June 9, 1972 Los Angeles, CA.
American RadioWorks
“...of us who are brown and black and working women and men – bears a very striking similarity to the condition of the prisoner. The wealth and the technology around us tells us that a free, humane, harmonious society lies very near. But at the same time it is so far away because someone is holding the keys and that someone refuses to open the gates to freedom. Like the prisoner we are locked up with the ugliness of racism and poverty…”
Davis, Angela. "The Gates to Freedom." Speech Delivered at the Embassy Auditorium, Embassy Auditorium, June 9, 1972 Los Angeles, CA.
American RadioWorks
“So let us celebrate in the only way that is fitting. Let the joy of victory be the foundation of an undying vow; a renewed commitment to the cause of freedom. For we know now that victories are possible, though the struggles they demand are long and arduous. So let our elation merge with a pledge to carry on this fight until a time when all the antiquated ugliness and brutality of jails and prisons linger on only as a mere, a mere memory of a nightmare.”
Davis, Angela. "The Gates to Freedom." Speech Delivered at the Embassy Auditorium, Embassy Auditorium, June 9, 1972 Los Angeles, CA.
American RadioWorks
“Great angels
fly at our behest
between towers,
along axons and dendrites,
so that things stand
as they stand
in the recruited present.”
Armantrout, Rae. "Eyes." Poetry 194, no. 3 (2009): 208. Accessed August 20, 2021.
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"Burning, wetland enhancement, planting, harvesting were done according to long established principles that protected and increased the capacity of the land."
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.
“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.
“The Kumeyaay knew this, creating and using fire to increase the abundance of edible plants for humans and wildlife, for controlling insects and diseases that could harm edible and useful plants, and to increase plant materials used in making baskets, cordage, clothing, and tools.”
Connolly Miskwish, Michael, Stan Rodriguez, and Martha Rodriguez. Kumeyaay Heritage and Conservation (HC) Project Learning Landscapes Educational Curriculum. p. 49. 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
" European grains were planted each year and within 20 years, the sandy loams of the valley had lost their productivity. The dropping water table and the continued pressure of agriculture and cattle grazing gradually desertified the valley, to the point that it was a dry desert wash with a few weeks of stream flow at the end of the rainy season. Commercial farming ended after which was leased as grazing for a small return from a local cattle rancher."
Connolly Miskwish, Michael. “e’Muht Mohay (Love of the Land).” San Diego Natural History Museum, November 18, 2020. Accessed August 31, 2021.
YouTube
“...at scale to electoral organizing, this same work can transform our society and the world. The world that we imagine will not come into existence if we are not courageous enough to challenge power where it operates at the largest scale, impacting the lives of millions, even billions of people...”
Garza, Alicia. The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart. United States: Random House Publishing Group, 2020. p.167.
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Penguin Random House
“...we have to build a viable left in this country, capable of ushering in a humane and dignified way of living for all of us. Yet there is no hope for a unified coalition or alliance that does not understand, viscerally, and intellectually, that Black communities are critical, that Black communities are underorganized...”
Garza, Alicia. The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart. United States: Random House Publishing Group, 2020. p.154.
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Penguin Random House
"From the early days in this country's history, it has been the traditional task of lawyers to mediate between principle and practice, between man's heritage and his hopes-that is the message of Law and the Quest for Equality-and that task and message we must never forget.”
Marshall, Thurgood. “Law and the Quest for Equality.” Washington University Law Review 1967, no. 1 (Winter 1967). p. 9.
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Washington University Open Scholarship
“Of course they involved more than the race of the particular litigant, for as President Kennedy said, echoing the thoughts of others, in a nationwide address on June 11, 1963, occasioned by the opposition of a governor of a state to the court-ordered enrollment of two students in a graduate school:
This nation . . . was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the
rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
Marshall, Thurgood, and Kennedy, John F. “Law and the Quest for Equality.” Washington University Law Review 1967, no. 1 (Winter 1967). p. 7-8.
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Washington University Open Scholarship
“We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away.”
Marshall, Thurgood. Supreme Justice: Speeches and Writings. United Kingdom: University of Pennsylvania Press, Incorporated, 2003. p. 314.
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National Constitution Center
“The conditions are that the earth had no core, or only a small one, and that primitive continental material had differentiated on the surface, and hence the earth was completely formed at the time of the first convection in a single cell.”
Urey, Harold C. "On the Origin of Continents and Mountains." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 39, no. 9 (1953): 939.
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“Mars appears to have no mountains higher than 750 meters, though elevated plateaus are indicated by some irregularity of the ice caps. It appears that mountains formation as observed on earth does not occur on Mars.
Urey, Harold C. "On the Origin of Continents and Mountains." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 39, no. 9 (1953): 936.
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“Language is a mind-body system that coevolved with our needs and nerves. Like imagination and the body, language rises unbidden. It is of a complexity that eludes our rational intellectual capacities. All attempts at scientific description of natural languages have fallen short of completeness, as the de- scriptive linguists readily confess, yet the child learns the mother tongue early and has virtually mastered it by six.”
Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p.17.
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BeWild ReWild
“You'll get mixed up, of course,
as you already know.
You'll get mixed up
with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step.
Step with care and great tact
and remember that Life's
a Great Balancing Act.
Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left.
Seuss. Oh, the Places You’ll Go! London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2020.
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“To the young people of the nation, I must speak a word tonight. You are going to have a great opportunity. There will be high moments in which your strength and your ability will be tested. I have faith in you. I feel as though I was standing upon a rock and that rock is my faith in my fellow citizens.”
Roosevelt, Eleanor. Address, Pearl Harbor Radio Address, December 07, 1941.
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Iowa State University
“The books were wrong, and I eventually learned how wings actually generate lift. This experience taught me to trust my thinking when I could back it up with logical, airtight reasoning – even if the whole world says otherwise.
Incidentally, a pair of molecules that part from each other at the leading edge do NOT meet at the trailing edge. The one on top gets there far earlier.”
Raskin, Jef. The AMA History Project Presents: Autobiography of Jef Raskin. PDF. Munice, IN: Academy of Model Aeronautics History Project, 2002. p.3.
Academy of Model Aeronautics
“The relatively high density and low viscosity of seawater are the essential qualities that make the sea surface a broad and easily traveled highway. In technical terms the water provides a high lift-drag ratio to the ships that float on it; consequently large ships and heavy cargoes can be moved fairly rapidly across the ocean with comparatively lit tle motive power.”
Revelle, Roger. "The Ocean." Scientific American 221, no. 3 (1969): 63. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0969-54.
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"The fluid character of water on our planet is the miracle that makes life pos sible, but it also means that the oceans fill all the low places of the earth. Be cause of this geographical fact the oceans are the ultimate receptacle of the wastes of the land, including the wastes that are produced in ever increas ing amounts by human beings and their industries."
Revelle, Roger. "The Ocean." Scientific American 221, no. 3 (1969): 63. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0969-54.
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“Below the surface there is a multitude of living things, darting and watching, living and dying; theirs is an alien world I cannot see and can hardly imagine. At the horizon, where my line of Sight touches the edge of the great globe itself, I watch ships slowly disappear, first the hulls and then the tall masts, bound on voyages to un known ports 10,000 miles away. From beyond the horizon come the waves that break rhythmically on the beach, sound ing now loud, now soft, as they did long before I was born and as they will in the far future. The restless, ever changing ocean is timeless on the scale of my life, and this also is a mystery.”
Revelle, Roger. "The Ocean." Scientific American 221, no. 3 (1969): 55. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0969-54.
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“He was also man the dancer and singer, the artist and inventor of ritual, the entertainer and decorator who used not only the environment, but his own wonder fully plastic body as a medium of joy and art. Man the tool-maker, the mammoth-chaser, and the fire-builder learned that he could observe, analyze, and predict events, and act on the basis of his predictions.”
Revelle, Roger. "Outdoor Recreation in a Hyper-Productive Society." Daedalus 96, no. 4 (1967): 1172-191. Accessed July 1, 2021
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“All that is demanded of the readers is that they yield to the poem, as has the world. This done, the ‘procreant urge,’ as Whitman calls the drive towards creativity, will be spontaneously released and the readers will be on their way to their own personal, individuated transformations, to their own achievement of heroic status.”
Pearce, Roy Harvey. "Toward an American Epic." The Hudson Review 12, no. 3 (1959): 369. doi:10.2307/3848762.
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The Hudson Review