Thought for the Day

This beautiful gift of attention that we human beings have

is being hijacked to pay attention to products and someone

else's political agenda. Whereas if we can reclaim our

attention and pay attention to things that really matter,

there a revolution starts.

~ Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Quoted from David Marchese, "You Don't Have to Be Complicit in Our Culture of Destruction" (Interview with Robin Wall Kimmerer), The New York Times Magazine, January 29, 2023

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Member, Citizen Potawatomi Nation; Professor, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Author, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Milkweed Editions, 2015) and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Oregon State University Press, 2003)