We have constructed an artifice, a Potemkin village of an ecosystem where we perpetrate the illusion that the things we consume have just fallen off the back of Santa’s sleigh, not been ripped from the earth. The illusion enables us to imagine that the only choices we have are between brands. - Robin Wall Kimmerer
With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see. - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Names are the way we humans build relationship, not only with each other but with the living world. - Robin Wall Kimmerer