Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. ”

One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity. ”

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer. ”

I want to sit in my own sorrow, cry it out, talk to God, and say, 'Give me strength, wisdom.' ”

Sometimes I have to run and hide. What I do at home sometimes is, I listen to a CD of the roughness of the ocean. I turn every light off, and I turn the stereo on, and I just go in my mind, cry, talk to God, tell him, 'I'm your child, too.' And I stay in my little solitude until I can get the strength to go outdoors. ”

We've heard people say that teachers have no business going rogue and trying to select their own books, technology, and classes - and citizens have no business deciding what is worthy. We believe in teachers. We believe in the wisdom of the crowd. ”

We believe in the wisdom of the front lines. ”

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. ”

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? ”

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. ”