Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that. ”

A whole set of values comes with fast food: Everything should be fast, cheap and easy; there's always more where that came from; there are no seasons; you shouldn't be paid very much for preparing food. It's uniformity and a lack of connection. ”

A lot of equipment can get in the way of the connection with food, with touching and feeling. ”

One of the great responsibilities that I have is to manage my assets wisely, so that they create value. ”

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. ”

Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52. ”

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her. ”

I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe. ”

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe. ”

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature. ”