QUOTE: LANGUAGE, STORY, WAYS OF KNOWING: - #7

“One story is not enough. One history is not enough. One literature…is not enough. Nor two. But the world I meet in the television set and in the store has evolved no system for dealing with multiple stories except to turn them into commodities. That divorces them from the land, and it divorces them from us. Money, in the narrow sense in which we understand it now, is species-specific. We need a more meaningful currency – one acceptable to some of the other creatures with whom we share the planet.”

- The Tree of Meaning: Language, Mind & Ecology, by Robert Bringhurst