The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit.

All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.

Sensitivity to nature is not an innate attribute of indigenous peoples. It is a consequence of adaptive choices that have resulted in the development of highly specialized peripheral skills. but those choices in turn spring from a comprehensive view of nature and the universe in which man and woman are perceived as but elements inextricably linked to the whole.

A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.

What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?

Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel