Fabulous Quotes

‘We have to remember that conservation is only necessary as a result of colonialism and the forced displacement of Indigenous people who have stewarded the land for thousands of years. This is the true root of the conservation issues Sumatra faces.’ Nayla Azmi of Nuraga Bhumi (which translates as ‘souls dedicated to the earth.)

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Neil Foulkes – hedge layer, woodworker.

I often blame machines but it isn’t the machines that are the problem. It is the mentality that has led us to create the machines that is the problem. The machines are just a manifestation of the lack of proper relationship with the land. 

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We are so conditioned to think this way. We don’t so much have to learn something new as to unlearn all of the things that leave us at a remove from the real world. Now there is a paradox = learning to unlearn.

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Linda Lear on Rachel Carson:

She stirs in us that ancient longing for unity with the living world.’

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Richard Power – Novelist:

We’re cashing in a billion years of planetary savings bonds and blowing it on assorted bling.  from Ovestory publ 2018

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‘There’s no such thing as a smart phone.’ JA 2024

Smart: having or showing a quick-witted intelligence.

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Our old people learned the land the right way without relying on bulldozer tractors. There was nothing between us and the land. David Claudie – Fire book

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…’we’re with it always. Like the whitefella reads a book, the people read the land.’ Victor Steffensen – Fire book.

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‘Every burn we watch and take in what we are doing. We think of our country, our ancestors, our grand-fathers and also the role we will play for the future.’

Dale and Dwayne – Fire book

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Everything that is based on the land comes to our heart.

David Claudie – Fire book

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J Krishnamurti:

‘You are part of society; to affect the whole, the part must transform itself.’

A mind that is full of conclusions is a dead mind, it is not a living mind. A living mind is a free mind, learning, never concluding.

All great things start on a small scale, all great movements beging with individuals; and if we wait for collective action, such action, if it takes place at all, is destructive and conducive to further misery. So revolution must begin with you and me. (1950)

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.