QUOTE: LANGUAGE, STORY, WAYS OF KNOWING: - #9

“The histories of nations and empires and the political and economic geographies memorialized I our schoolbooks do not give us the essential information we need to act our way into a working relationship with place…The story a place has to tell, especially the story of continuity of human presence in that place, is an absence so large in our culture as to be outside our range of vision. It is invisible like the air is invisible, but it is no less essential to our comfort and survival. The living region requires of us that we become its intimate inhabitants, and further, that we regrow our sense of community as a function of that inhabitation.”

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