Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.
Alice WalkerI feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.
Alice WalkerWhat gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.
Alice WalkerNow there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are being constructed that some countries consider their economics healthy. Yet each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth. Just as all our possessions represent-if we cannot learn ways of sharing them-a weight and clutter that often means the faces of future generations will look up into darkness and the pressure on the Earth of "things."
Alice Walker