The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited.

– Thomas Berry

As an active participant in a community, you gain access to a living repository of collective knowledge that cannot be replicated in static resources.

– Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Tiny Experiments

Change culture and you change lives. You can also change history.

– Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land,and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

– Tadao Ando

The world is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

– W.B. Yeats

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

– Bill Moyers

Everyone here is a creative force in some way or the other.

– Joy Harjo

At its best, activism is a form of healing. It is about what we do and how we show up in the world. It is about expressing regard, compassion, and love.

– Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

– Henry Ford

The healing is in the return, not in never having wandered to begin with.

– Sharon Salzberg