Search Results: Robin Wall Kimmerer

"In some Native languages the term for plants translates to "those who take care of us.""

Robin Wall Kimmerer

"For all of us, becoming indigenous to a place means living as if your children's future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material and spiritual, depended on it."

Robin Wall Kimmerer

"When we tell them that the tree is not a who, but an it, we make that maple an object; we put a barrier between us, absolving ourselves of moral responsibility and opening the door to exploitation."

Robin Wall Kimmerer

"Hoarding won't save us...All flourishing is mutual."

Robin Wall Kimmerer

"In Anishinaabe languages of Skywoman, our words for moss, aasaakamig and aasaakamek, carry the meaning those ones who cover the earth. "

Robin Wall Kimmerer

"A garden is a way that the land says, "I love you."...Gardens are simultaneously a material and a spiritual undertaking."

Robin Wall Kimmerer

"Reciprocity--returning the gift--is not just good manners; it is how the biophysical world works."

Robin Wall Kimmerer

"The Earth is generous with us -- and forgiving. We can be the same with each other."

Robin Wall Kimmerer

"I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift"

Robin Wall Kimmerer

"In some Native languages the term for plants translates to "those who take care of us.""

Robin Wall Kimmerer

"Can we make a new world with new words?"

Robin Wall Kimmerer

"Maybe there is no such thing as time; there are only moments, each with its own story."

Robin Wall Kimmerer

"You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

Christopher Robin to Pooh

"Quickly, when the children see that I have arrived, they want to share their musical talents ... I am reminded that music is one of the few avenues of happiness that is available to them."

Robin Sukhadia

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Up to his nest again, I shall not live in vain."

Emily Dickinson

"People are starting to see you only get so much satisfaction acquiring things and status. Helping others makes people feel good. If TV can show how people can help, even subliminally, that's great."

Robin Baker Leacock

"If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough."

Vicki Robin

"All systems of oppression are adaptive; they can withstand and adjust to challenges and still maintain inequality."

Robin DiAngelo

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

Michael Jordan

"There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go -- if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall."

Bernard Malamud

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

Michael Jordan

"Thought is an amazing thing: it can be a mirror, a lens, a bridge, a wall, a window, a ladder or a house. There is nothing in the world that has the cutting edge of a new thought."

John O'Donohue

"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."

Khalil Gibran