"If we’re going to continue living with our current
relationship to nature, which treats it as kind of a spectacle, nature is this
playground and a spectacle, that you go and enjoy, but it’s not an intimate
relationship. You can’t hold everything else constant, and reintroduce wolves
or mountain lions or whatever else you’re trying to reintroduce, because they don’t fit into
society as we know it right now. But, of course, we’re part of nature
too, and it’s our denial of that that allows us to act in ways that are
unnatural and that destroy life. So part of our embracing our participation in
nature is to interact with respect, and intimacy even, with all wild animals."
"The counterpart, the corollary, to the saying ‘if you change
one thing you must change everything,’ is ‘if you change one thing, then
everything will change,’ and that means that no effort is ever wasted.
Everything that calls to us, calls to our creativity and our healing desires,
is the gateway into healing everything."
From movie: Staring Down Fate
The mindset that calls us to ceremony is the same
mindset that calls us to ask, “What does the land want? What does the river
want? What does the wolf want? What does the forest want?” and then pays close
attention to the clues. It holds land, river, wolf, and forest in a status of
beingness – counting them among the holy beings that are always watching, and
who have needs and interests entwined with our own.
