Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. ' ”

I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition. ”

Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community. ”

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. ”

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground. ”

The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but yet it does appear to me that the bent to worship is an integral part of man's nature. ”

One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material elements composing the physical and astral corpses, brought about by the burning. ”

We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream. ”

It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message. ”

The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning. ”