Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned, it's universally celebrated as part of a development strategy.

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.

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.

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

If we accept that we are all cut from the same genetic cloth, all cultures share the same genius. And whether that genius is placed into technological wizardry which has been our great achievement, or, by contrast, placed into the unraveling of complex threads of memory inherent in a myth is simply a matter of choice.

The surface of the Earth itself is an immense loom upon which the sun weaves the fabric of existence.

The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.