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I floated through the market with a sense of euphoria. Gratitude was the only currency accepted here. It was all a gift. It was like picking strawberries in my field: the merchants were just intermediaries passing on gifts from the earth.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Spend time in nature, the less constructed and controlled the better. This has many benefits, among them the dawning recognition that you cannot control everything in your life, and that experiencing discomfort—even the slight discomforts of a too-warm day, or rain for which you are unprepared—calibrates your appreciation for other aspects of your
... See moreHeather Heying • A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
To discover the essence of generous design, she suggests that we take nature as our model, measure and mentor. With nature as model, we can study and mimic life’s cyclical processes of take and give, death and renewal, in which one creature’s waste becomes another’s food. As measure, nature sets the ecological standard by which to judge the sustain
... See moreKate Raworth • Doughnut Economics: The must-read book that redefines economics for a world in crisis
The Organic world does not discard the old but instead grows slowly out of the old into a new state. Effortless living
These rhythms are not set by us. We are all participating in a larger creative act we are not conducting. We are being conducted. The artist is on a cosmic timetable, just like all of nature.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
We are a sacrifice, and no matter how much we run from it, our lives are a sacrifice for the sake of the whole, for the sake of Gaia. This
Richard Rudd • The 64 Ways: Personal Contemplations on the Gene Keys
If we were in tune with nature, in tune with ourselves, loving rather than hating, nature would be allowed to fulfill and serve us with a bounty that would make everyone not only affluent, but also extremely happy.
Lester Levenson • No Attachments, No Aversions: The Autobiography of a Master
“The universe can organize itself. The embryo doesn’t need to figure out how to become a baby. Buds don’t have to figure out how to become blossoms. Nature has its plan figured out.
Marianne Williamson • The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles
(Nature provides the seed; man provides the garden; each is grateful for the other’s help.)