Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls. ”

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!' ”

People perceive me as this kind of hippy intellectual, reflecting and communing with nature or in a pyramid somewhere chanting. Really, no. I love speed, fast things, quad and road bikes, and bombing down a mountain. ”

As a young man, the temptation was to drink the minibar dry. I did all that - now I prefer to get outdoors. ”

As I get older, I have a very strong urge to know about stuff. I want to learn the names of trees and birds; that's the sort of knowledge I want to pass on to my son. ”

We live in the age of entitlement, as opposed to enlightenment. ”

I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.' Immediately, when I was 10, I started photographing nature. I built a darkroom. My first really good darkroom, not just down in the cellar, was when I was 14. ”

The meaning of yoga is connection of mind, body and spirit. If you have a bad telecommunication system, your body gets sick. Yoga helps fix that. ”

The Internet connection from the road can be spotty, so usually when I'm on the tour bus, I'm playing 'God of War.' ”

I come from a community plagued with so much poverty and violence and homophobia. ”