“And the quiet of the house is also the quiet of stalks and vines that no longer jangle at any touch of of wind, or bird, or person passing, but which have been laced and bound into new patterns and have been now given new stories to tell. Stories that lace and bind the earthly matters to matters not of earth.” EarthNatureRespectTransformationTreesIndigenous WisdomMaori Culture Book:Potiki Source: Potiki
“Only Indigenous people are real Canadians, Kiwis, and Aussies, everybody else is an immigrant. Before you yell slurs at an immigrant of today, Start by heading back to Europe yourself.” ColonialismIndigenous PeopleColonial HistoryIndigenous RightsIndigenous WisdomAustralian HistoryIndigenous CultureCanadian HistoryMaori CultureKiwi Culture Book:Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“There was in the meeting-house a wood quiet. It was the quiet of trees that have been brought in out of the wind, whose new-shown limbs reach out, not to the sky but to the people. This is the quiet, still, otherness of trees found by the carver, the shaper, the maker.” NatureTransformationTreesIndigenous WisdomSacred WisdomMaori CultureWood Carving Book:Potiki Source: Potiki