QUOTE: LANGUAGE, STORY, WAYS OF KNOWING: - #8

“What if we were to think of ourselves as operating within the time frame of geological processes and of the natural succession of ecological communities, rather than the quick wink of human generations or the even shorter fibrillations of political elections? How could we begin to act like people of a place rather than like consumers and producers in a market system over which we had little control? What if we began to develop and share our own vernacular experience and wisdom to the point where it had a credibility equal to that of the specialists in the state capital?”

- Totem Salmon: Life Lessons From Another Species, by Freeman House