“The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.” MenDoeEarthLawTurnsCausesNaturalSunHonorBirdTraditionTrapsNatural Law Author:Khalil Gibran
“Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.” WellsChildrenEarthGivenParentPiecesTraditionTreatsOur ChildrenInnocenceIndianYour ChildrenNativeAncestorNative AmericanEldersIndigenousMother EarthAmerican IndianNative American WisdomGreat SpiritNative AmericaNative American IndianGreat Native AmericanNative American EarthIndian WisdomNative WisdomNative LandAmerican SpiritNative American Indian InspirationalNative American SpiritualNative American DreamSpiritual IndianNative American ProverbsAncient IndiaAmerican EagleCherokee Indian Author:Crazy Horse
“It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing their ancestry back to so many different parts of the earth and to conditions of such diverse kinds, the variations of text are so entirely questions of detail, not of essential substance.” KindDifferentEarthConditionsEssentialsTraditionDetailsProofSubstanceCopiesDiverseVariationAncestryTracingSoundness Author:Frederic G. Kenyon
“Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through endless years, On one he leans: some call her Memory, And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet, With deep mysterious accords: the other, Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams A light divine and searching on the earth, Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields, Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew, Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked But for Tradition; we walk evermore To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.” MenYearsTwoReasonLightEyeEarthYoungVoiceMemoriesWalksPathDivineSweetHigherAngelTraditionShiningGuidesEndlessChecksMysteriousStreamsYieldRaysCompellingFloatingLampsReflectingAccordFootstepsEvermoreRipening Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“African tradition deals with life as an experience to be lived. In many respects, it is much like the Eastern philosophies in that we see ourselves as a part of a life force; we are joined, for instance, to the air, to the earth. We are part of the whole-life process. We live in accordance with, in a kind of correspondence with the rest of the world as a whole. And therefore living becomes an experience, rather than a problem, no matter how bad or how painful it may be.” WorldKindMayMatterPhilosophyWholeProblemEarthForceProcessDealsAirTraditionPainfulWhole LifeInstanceOnenessEasternCorrespondenceEastern Philosophy Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde
“it is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth.” PeopleArtEarthAliveTraditionIndiaEternityWesternImmortalityVillageMuseumsPointlessOral Tradition Book:Home to India Source: Home to India