Sherri Mitchell Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset: We Need a Kincentric Worldview | Atmos
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Sherri Mitchell Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset: We Need a Kincentric Worldview | Atmos
But to survive, we have to understand our relationship with all other living things. The survival of my species depends on understanding the salmon’s relationship to the ecosystem upon which I depend.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
“Though we live in a world made of gifts, we find ourselves harnessed to institutions and an economy that relentlessly asks, ‘What more can we take from the Earth?’ This worldview of unbridled exploitation is to my mind the greatest threat to the life that surrounds us. Even our definitions of sustainability revolve around trying to find the formul
... See moreI believe that we are part of a natural world that is constantly changing, and we need to learn to adapt together and stay in relationship if we hope to survive as a species.
adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
It is a beautiful illustration of the kind of decentring of ourselves and of human experience at which we must become adept in order to live better and more responsibly in a more-than-human world. This decentring, an admission that the human race is not the only game in town, does not correspond to any reduction of our world.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
We’ve been the keystone species of ecological erosion, and now we must become the keystone species of ecological restoration.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Anybody, no matter what your ideology is, or, you know, your connection to the earth, you are held in that web of relationship, if you are living and breathing and eating. Um, but the insanity is that we don't recognize it, right. We can't even see that we're being held by all of these beings.
Prentis Hemphill • Finding Our Way with Rowen White — Finding Our Way Podcast
This calls us to undertake a transformation from a worldview of domination and exploitation to a kin-centric worldview that acknowledges our utter dependence upon the life-giving gifts of other species, before whom we can only bow in gratitude. Gratitude awakens the impulse to return the gifts, to enter the covenant of reciprocity.
David Suzuki • The Sacred Balance, 25th anniversary edition: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature (Foreword by Robin Wall Kimmerer)
When we rely deeply on other lives, there is urgency to protect them.